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peak Noun

— A peak is a point at the top of an object. — A peak is the highest amount reached. The stock market reached a peak in September 1929. — A peak is the top of a mountain.

peak Verb

— To peak is to reach the highest degree or maximum of something.

peak

— noun the most extreme possible amount or value voltage peak — noun (= top, tip, summit) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) the view from the peak was magnificent they clambered to the tip of Monadnock the region is a few molecules wide at the summit — noun (= flower) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity — noun (= acme, height, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty the artist's gifts are at their acme at the height of her career the peak of perfection summer was at its peak ...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame the summit of his ambition so many highest superlatives achieved by man at the top of his profession — verb (= top out) 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 — noun the highest point (of something) at the peak of the pyramid — noun (= bill) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead — noun (= point) a V shape the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points

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peak English » English

top summit tip climax apex pinnacle point acme zenith crest vertex maximum highest point height culmination visor prime end tiptop ridge crown mountain peak hill heyday head eyeshade vizor top out superlative pike mountain meridian limit highlight highest flower culminate spike prong nose mountain ridge high point headland grow weak grow feeble flush extremum elevation efflorescence cusp

Topics peak topics

What do people use peak to talk about?
Universe, creation World Land

Mountain
Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Roof
States Parts of things

Top

Conjugation peak conjugation

How do you conjugate peak?

peak · verb

Examples peak examples

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Simple sentences

The peak rises above the clouds.
The mountain peak was covered with snow.
I met them during my descent from the peak.
The peak of Fujiyama was covered with snow.
Can you see that mountain with the snow-covered peak?
He climbed to the peak of the mountain.
Someone reaches the peak of fame when his name is everywhere, except in the phone book.
Over the course of about 11 years, our Sun cycles from a relatively quiet state to a peak in intense solar activity called a solar maximum.
The highest peak is Everest.
The excitement reached its peak.
Mt. Everest is the highest peak in the world.
The real value of the minimum wage has fallen by nearly one-third since its peak in 1968.
That hotel will cost you much more during peak season than off-season.

Movie subtitles

True warriors must always be at their peak.
And that mountain peak, that's down here. - Criminy!
I saw the open-peak. -Of course.
If that isn't as plain as Pike's Peak.
On the highest peak of the highest mountain of the world. where earth meets the sky, and there is the Temple of the Dawn.
Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the United States.
See that peak up there?
What does he own, Pike's Peak?
In 1939, with thousands of known and suspected enemy agents invading the Americas the FBI started building up its force of special agents and employees from 2000 to a war peak of 15,000.
I reached my peak when I was 19.
The people call the highest peak Nangu Delva.
My life had begun to pass its peak.
A great actress at the peak of her career.
He knows Galahad, as soon as he reaches his peak, will take McGraw.
Start dropping them after you've passed that second peak.
Night patrol calls for peak efficiency and perfect physical fitness.
The wilderness, the peak, the unending solitudes where roams the Indian in all his ferocity, in all his nobility.
Near that peak.
It pointed my eyes at a strange kind of peak. a startling rock formation with a window in its top.
I began making tracks for that peak.
Nobody, not Ray Covin, the Sheriff, Bill Bates. nobody had ever mentioned the weird map cut in the rocks. or this peak that had been pointed out by the stick in the hole.
You'll have to cross the volcano's peak. I don't care, I must get there.
What does he own, Pike's Peak? Oh, no, no.
A black mountain with a sunny peak, like a beckoning finger in the sky.
You'll have to cross the volcano's peak.
He wanted a peak at the dear departed before the other boys beat him to it.
They're admired and hero-worshipped, but there is always present underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.
They're going up to the first peak on this side with radio equipment so they can keep in touch with Servoz on the glacial.
We can sell the house. I spoke to the people at the hotel about it, they're opening up a new ski slope below the first peak and they can use this place.
He might be down at Pedleyville or Peak's Junction.
We've been getting a lot of calls from Peak's Junction, all along the state line.
He was. rather short. with a Iarge head. greying hair. a receding forehead. a widow's peak. and. a bit chubby. plump.
Your technology, you say, reached its peak about 2,000 years ago?
Well, jow about taking a peak into the future?

News and current affairs

Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.
Malaria deaths in children in Africa were cut from a peak of around one million in 2004 to around 700,000 by 2010, and, worldwide, deaths of pregnant women declined by almost half between 1990 and 2010, from an estimated 543,000 to 287,000.
The Wall Street Journal's Justin Lahart reports that the 2010 share was higher than the previous peak share in 2006.
The dollar remains the world's reserve currency, and investors' scramble into US government debt at every peak in the crisis since 2008 has underscored America's safe-haven status (even in crises that America caused).
Even when its energy dependence on the Middle East was at its peak, the US rarely altered its policy of support for Israel.
The output gap reflects a deficit of more than 12 million jobs - the number of jobs needed to return to the economy's peak 2007 employment level and absorb the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.
Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.
The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.
Support for EU membership within the pre-enlargement EU-15 remains where it was in the mid-1990's (and below the peak reached in 1990), while support for the euro is no higher now than it was in 1997.
Not only will battery-powered vehicles draw power from the electricity grid during recharging, but, when parked, they can also feed additional power back into the grid during periods of peak demand.
Fiscal and monetary stimulus may have been appropriate at the peak of the crisis, but they will do little to address the biggest threat to the continent's long-term prospects: a toxic twosome of weak demographics and low investment.
Increased fear of competition from emerging countries is also a natural consequence of the collapse of the speculative bubble in equities in 2000; stock markets in some countries fell to less than half their peak value.
Today, the real price of oil is nearly twice as high as it was at the peak of that crisis, but we have seen nothing like the images from 1973-5.
And increasing rewards for those at the increasingly sharp peak of the income distribution have not called forth enough enterprising market competition to erode that peak.
Private-sector employment is still down 4.1 million from its January 2008 peak.
Since its introduction, the euro has fallen further from its peak then even the Nasdaq in the high-tech sell-off of earlier this year.
In Singapore, regulators are developing an innovative Electricity Vending System to give 1.2 million consumers real-time price signals so that they can learn to conserve electricity during peak periods.
To do this, Iran would have to boost its total output (including domestic consumption) to six million barrels per day, roughly equal to its peak production in the 1970s.
I was in Beijing in the fall of 2007, when the Shanghai Composite Index skyrocketed to almost 6,000 (the recent peak was just over 5,000), owing partly to the participation of relatively inexperienced retail investors.
Certain Chinese scholars are now writing about the decline of the US, with one identifying the year 2000 as the peak of American power.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.
The last decade saw the peak of an unprecedented housing boom in most of the rich world.
All of these countries are also determined to restore their output to previous peak levels and should be able to pump more oil than they did in the 1970s and 1980s by exploiting new production technologies pioneered in the US.
But the comparison is misleading, because 2007 was the peak of a credit bubble that led to a lot of wasteful investment.
To be sure, the authorities have suffered some defections, with the most significant coming soon after the violence in Homs reached its peak, when the deputy energy minister resigned and joined the opposition.
It coincided with the peak of the West's belief in its soaring economic strength and perpetual global ascendancy.
To be sure, the US now has more power resources relative to other countries than Britain had at its imperial peak.

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