Peek

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peek \Peek\ (p[=e]k), v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce,
     prick, E. pique. Cf. {Peak}.]
     To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or
     through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peek
       n : a secret look [syn: {peep}]
       v : throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced
           at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything
           interesting" [syn: {glance}, {glint}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "peek":
     bend the eyes, blink, cast, direct the eyes, flash, gander, glance,
     glimpse, half an eye, look, meddle, nose, peep, peer,
     play peekaboo, pry, quick sight, rapid glance, slant, snoop, spy,
     squiz, take a peep, wink
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  PEEK
       Partners Early Experience Kit (Taligent)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  peek n.,vt. (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 `peek'ing 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 (see
     {{interrupt list}}). The results of `poke's 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.)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  PEEK
       
          The command in most {microcomputer} {BASIC}s for reading
          memory contents (a byte) at an absolute address.  POKE is the
          corresponding command to write a value to an absolute address.
       
          This is often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in
          any {High Level Language}.
       
          Much hacking on small {microcomputer}s without {MMU}s consists
          of "peek"ing 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 circulate (see {interrupt list}).  The results of
          "poke"s at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly
          amusing, useless but neat, or 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, {operating system}
          {kernel}s often have to do exactly this; a real {C} hacker
          would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute
          address to a pointer variable and indirect through it.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-31)