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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
- Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam? Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
- Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
- Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
- 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
- Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
- When they replaced the ten-minute peak-hour ferry services with 20-minute sailings, in 1975, it was chaos.
- 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
- Male speaker It's an attack on them mentally.
- Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum. PopMatters
