peek

6 definitions found

peek - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

peek - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peek
      n 1: a secret look [syn: peek, peep]
      v 1: 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, peek, glint]

peek - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  PEEK
  
     The command in most microcomputer BASICs 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 microcomputers without MMUs 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
     kernels 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)
  

peek - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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 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.)
  

peek - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  PEEK
         Partners Early Experience Kit (Taligent)
         

peek - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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