peer vs study

peer

verb
  • To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. 

  • To make equal in rank. 

  • To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic. 

noun
  • Someone who pees, someone who urinates. 

  • Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else). 

  • A look; a glance. 

  • A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners. 

  • Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else). 

  • A comrade; a companion; an associate. 

study

verb
  • To look at minutely. 

  • To endeavor diligently; to be zealous. 

  • To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. 

  • To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. 

  • To take a course or courses on a subject. 

  • To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder. 

noun
  • A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household. 

  • The human face, bearing an expression which the observer finds amusingly typical of a particular emotion or state of mind. 

  • Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning. 

  • Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration. 

  • An endgame problem composed for artistic merit, where one side is to play for a win or for a draw. 

  • An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique. 

  • An academic publication. 

  • A piece for special practice; an étude. 

  • The act of studying or examining; examination. 

  • One who commits a theatrical part to memory. 

How often have the words peer and study occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )