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UK
/pˈiːk/
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[ US /ˈpik/ ]
[ US /ˈpik/ ]
NOUN
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
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the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
at the height of her career
the peak of perfection
his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty
at the top of his profession
summer was at its peak
...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame
so many highest superlatives achieved by man
the summit of his ambition
the artist's gifts are at their acme -
the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
the view from the peak was magnificent
the region is a few molecules wide at the summit -
a V shape
the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points -
the most extreme possible amount or value
voltage peak -
the highest point (of something)
at the peak of the pyramid -
a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead
VERB
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to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million
How To Use peak In A Sentence
- Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
- there are few Manx speakers alive today
- The angry audience shouted the speaker down.
- Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
- Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
- Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
- Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
- But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- I didn't move until I heard slow footsteps and peaked over the top of the gold to see Garren warily approaching the dragon, favoring his left leg.
- A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community. Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories