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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peelnoun

    British politician (1788-1850)

  2. peel, skinverb

    the rind of a fruit or vegetable

  3. skin, peel, pareverb

    strip the skin off

    "pare apples"

  4. peel off, peel, flake off, flakeverb

    come off in flakes or thin small pieces

    "The paint in my house is peeling off"

  5. undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peelverb

    get undressed

    "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PEELnoun

    The skin or thin rind of any thing.

    Etymology: pellis, Latin; pelure, French.

  2. Peelnoun

    A broad thin board with a long handle, used by bakers to put their bread in and out of the oven.

    Etymology: paelle, Fr.

  3. To Peelverb

    Etymology: peler, Fr. from pellis.

    The skilful shepherd peel’d me certain wands,
    And stuck them up before the fulsome ewes. William Shakespeare.

    Who once just and temp’rate conquer’d well,
    But govern ill the nations under yoke,
    Peeling their provinces, exhausted all
    But lust and rapine. John Milton, Paradise Regained.

    Lord-like at ease, with arbitary pow’r,
    To peel the chiefs, the people to devour;
    These, traitor, are thy talents. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. peel

    Peel refers to the act of removing the outer covering or skin of a fruit, vegetable or any food item. It also refers to the outer layer or skin itself of certain fruits and vegetables that is often removed before consumption. In a broader sense, it can also refer to the action of removing any outer layer or surface from an object.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Peelnoun

    a small tower, fort, or castle; a keep

  2. Peelnoun

    a spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar

  3. Peelverb

    to plunder; to pillage; to rob

  4. Peelverb

    to strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange

  5. Peelverb

    to strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc

  6. Peelverb

    to lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily

  7. Peelnoun

    the skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange

  8. Etymology: [OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.]

Wikidata

  1. Peel

    Peel was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1968. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the Townships of Chinguacousy, Toronto, and the Gore of Toronto, and the Villages of Brampton and Streetsville. In 1903, it was redefined to consist of the county of Peel. The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed between Peel South and Peel—Dufferin ridings.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Peel

    pēl, v.t. to strip off the skin or bark: to bare.—v.i. to come off as the skin: to lose the skin: (slang) to undress.—n. the skin, rind, or bark: (print.) a wooden pole with short cross-piece for carrying printed sheets to the poles on which they are to be dried: the wash or blade of an oar—not the loom: a mark for cattle, for persons who cannot write, &c.—adj. Peeled, stripped of skin, rind, or bark: plundered.—ns. Peel′er, one who peels, a plunderer; Peel′ing, the act of stripping: that which is stripped off: (print.) the removing of the layers of a paper overlay, to get a lighter impression. [O. Fr. peler, to unskin—L. pilāre, to deprive of hair—pilus, a hair; or pellis, a skin.]

  2. Peel

    pēl, n. a small Border fortress.—Also Peel′-tow′er. [Pile.]

  3. Peel

    pēl, n. a baker's wooden shovel: a fire-shovel. [O. Fr. pele—L. pāla, a spade.]

  4. Peel

    pēl, v.t. to plunder: to pillage. [Pill (v.).]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Peel

    a fishing town and holiday resort on the W. coast of the Isle of Man, 12 m. NW. of Douglas; it is noted for its castle.

CrunchBase

  1. Peel

    At Peel, we're passionate about great TV. You should love what you watch - every time you relax on the couch. After all, life's too short for bad TV.We build innovative solutions to enhance the TV experience, and believe that delightful program discovery, seamless remote control, and engaging social interactions will revolutionize your living room entertainment. We're excited about the future of TV and are working hard to bring this vision to life.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. peel

    A stronghold of earth and timber for defence. Also, the wash of an oar.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. peel

    To strip; to plunder; to pillage; as, to peel a province or conquered people.

  2. peel

    A small tower or fort.

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  2. PEEL

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  3. Peel

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PEEL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Peel is ranked #5247 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Peel surname appeared 6,647 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Peel.

    86% or 5,721 total occurrences were White.
    9.3% or 618 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 160 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.2% or 84 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.5% or 34 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 30 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of peel in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of peel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of peel in a Sentence

  1. Pascal Finette:

    I understand why when people look at this from the outside they say it's a little random. The bets seem disconnected and somewhat disjointed, but if you peel back the layers, I think you can see how a lot of the pieces actually fit nicely together.

  2. Sean Orton:

    Being able to kind of peel back the superficial muscles and looking into the deep muscles and understanding the origins is a very good kind of tool before actual dissection and cadavers in the lab, seeing where those muscles are and then taking that to a real body and then observing it in a live person.

  3. Brian Gibbons:

    We do think that we'll see another leg down from here, but when you peel back the onion, we don't think defaults rates will be as bad as some people think, yes, there are about 20-25 names that could be in danger, but we think many of them should be able to muddle through over the next year.

  4. unknown:

    I see the real you and it makes me want to peel myself open, and let you tear me apart.

  5. Michael Jordan:

    But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this.

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