peek

intr.v., peeked, peek·ing, peeks.

1. To glance quickly.
2. To look or peer furtively, as from a place of concealment.
3. To be only partially visible, as if peering or emerging from hiding: Tiny crocuses peeked through the snow.

n.
A brief or furtive look.

[Middle English piken, perhaps alteration of Middle Dutch kieken, variant of kīken.]

verb

To look briefly and quickly: glance, glimpse, peep. See see/not see.

noun

A quick look: blush, glance, glimpse, peep. Informal gander. See see/not see.

(and poke) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any HLL (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much hacking on small, non-MMU micros used to consist of peeking around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulated. The results of pokes at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or (most likely) total lossage (see killer poke).

Since a real operating system provides useful, higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a question like “How do I do a peek in C?” is diagnostic of the newbie. (Of course, OS kernels often have to do exactly this; a real kernel hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it.)

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IN BRIEF: To take a quick look.

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek. — Jim Fiebig

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - kigge, titte
n. - kig

idioms:

• peek at    kigge på

Nederlands (Dutch)
gluren, vluchtige blik

Français (French)
v. intr. - jeter un coup d'¯il furtif
n. - coup d'¯il furtif

idioms:

• peek at    jeter un coup d'¯il furtif (à, sur)

Deutsch (German)
n. - kurzer Blick
v. - gucken

idioms:

• peek at    hingucken

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κρυφοκοίταγμα, (γρήγορη ή κλεφτή) ματιά
v. - βλέπω ή παρατηρώ κλεφτά, κρυφοκοιτάζω, ξεπροβάλλω, ρίχνω γρήγορη ματιά

idioms:

• peek at    κρυφοκοιτάζω

Italiano (Italian)
sbirciare

idioms:

• peek at    sbirciare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - olhada (f)
v. - olhar de relance, bisbilhotar

idioms:

• peek at    dar uma olhadela

Русский (Russian)
заглянуть украдкой

idioms:

• peek at    взглянуть украдкой на

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - mirar a hurtadillas
n. - ojeada, vistazo

idioms:

• peek at    echar una ojeada

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - titt
v. - titta i smyg, kika

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
偷看, 窥视, 窥见, 一瞥

idioms:

• peek at    偷看...

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 偷看, 窺視
n. - 偷看, 窺視, 一瞥

idioms:

• peek at    偷看...

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 살짝 들여다 보다, 엿보다
n. - 엿봄

idioms:

• peek at    ~을 엿보다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - のぞき見
v. - そっとのぞく

idioms:

• peek at    …をちらっと見る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نظرة خاطفه أو عاجله, تطليعه, تحديقه (فعل) يسترق النظر, ينظر بخلسه, يتطلع, يحدق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮הציץ, העיף מבט‬
n. - ‮מבט חטוף, הצצה‬

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peek a block	peek a poohs
peek a blocks	fisher peek a block