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peters

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for peters.

Editorial note

And then the rewriting effort peters out and people just get used to living in a half-demolished house.

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Quick take

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Peter.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of peters gathered in one view.

noun

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Peter.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for peters.

noun

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Peter.

noun

A number of places in the United States:

noun

A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California.

noun

A township in Kingman County, Kansas.

Example sentences

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And then the rewriting effort peters out and people just get used to living in a half-demolished house.

2

Unless you know how to switch Google Maps into Peters Projection mode?

3

I'm working in Mumbai right now (outsourcing has apparently gone dyslexic, as Russel Peters said).

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Tim Peters is very good at practical algorithm design.

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From the title, I thought the article would go the other way, admonishing the lackadaisical one-a-week which becomes once-a-month practicing that simply peters off.

6

Of course, you can always book a flight home and build a new muse once this one peters out, but the high margins that allow you to automate will run out eventually.

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And we have never seen them work themselves into the same kind of a fit playing with blocks -- that usually just kind of peters out when they get bored, and they don't end up stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking blocks until they are half-hysterical.

Quote examples

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Dwight Peters - "Hustlers Ambition" How he came from sleeping on a couch to a $100,000 in profits building a tech business in 1 year.

Proper noun examples

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If you want an aspect ratio of 3/2 (approximately) you end up with the Gall-Peters projection.

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Gall-Peters is also a conformation projection that maps north-south maps to the vertical axis, and east-west to the horizontal axis.

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If you listen to Frank Peters' intro, Caulfield had apparently been fired from the company prior to the interview being published.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use peters in a sentence?

And then the rewriting effort peters out and people just get used to living in a half-demolished house.

What does peters mean?

An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Peter.

What part of speech is peters?

peters is commonly used as noun.