Word Finder - peak

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.

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The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.

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• apex
• pinnacle

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The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.

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They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.

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• summit
• top

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The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.

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The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

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peak-brails

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The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

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The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

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A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.

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To reach a highest degree or maximum.

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Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.

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To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

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To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.

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Maximal, maximally quintessential or representative; constituting the culmination of

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Bad

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Unlucky; unfortunate

The peak was flattened.

Nature was at her peak, blending the wild blooms with various shades of green.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both climbed the peak multiple times and praised it in their writings.

At least from the peak, she'd see anything before it got to the fortress, even in the moonlight.

He led her through the small encampment toward the mountain and up a smooth walkway to the flattened peak of one ridge.

What was worth the lives of the thousand people at the Peak, Lana?

The moon reached its peak before he'd finished inspecting the walls and greeting its guards.

The windows of the compound at the peak of the mountain were protected by film to keep light from leaking out.

I keep records on each goat and how many pounds of milk she gives daily, when she reached peak production and how long she lactated.

In summer at the Bureau Central the intermediate peak nearly disappears in the profound afternoon depression, but it is still recognizable.

Among the great glaciers which stream from the peak the most noteworthy are those of Bossons and Taconnaz (northern slope) and of Brenva and Miage (southern slope).

The restaurant was close by, so the ride there consisted of small talk about the weather, when peak foliage would be, and how much they both loved New England.

Among modern buildings may be mentioned the Bakewell and High Peak Institute, and the town hall and museum.

The old man was waiting for her on the other side of the peak.

No. The Peak is there.

If nothing else, she wanted to correct him about the Peak, to tell him she'd thought she'd been saving everyone on the mountain by taking the very keypads that might kill them in the hands of a traitor.

Lana was surprised to find that someone else at the Peak within the mountain had issued a similar mayday call.

Popa, a detached peak in the Myingyan district, belongs to this system and rises to a height of nearly 5000 f t., but it is interesting mainly as an extinct volcano, a landmark and an object of superstitious folklore, throughout the whole of Central Burma.

She sensed his concern, the same she'd felt at the Peak when he walked her out of the medical bay.

Finally, the third layer, known as "the Peak," and reached by a cable tramway, is dotted over with private houses and bungalows, the summer health resort of those who can afford them; here a new residence for the governor was begun in 1900.

No reservations are accepted at this bustling cafe, so expect lines during peak dining hours.

The demon of Teneriffe was called Guayota and lived in the peak of Teyde, which was the hell called Echeyde.

There are many summer resorts in the Tatra Mountains, the most frequented being Tatrafiired (German, Schmecks), three small villages situated at an altitude of 3250 ft., at the foot of the Schlagendorf peak; and the environs of the Lake of Csorba, which is called the "Pearl of the Tatra."

Chief among them are the snowy peak of Lirima (19,128 ft.) over the ravine of Tarapaca, the volcano of Isluga overhanging Camilla, the Bolivian peak of Sajama, and Tocora (19,741 ft.) near the Bolivian frontier.

The hills, which are mainly composed of granite, serpentine and syenite, rise in irregular masses to considerable heights, the loftiest point, Victoria Peak, reaching an altitude of 1825 ft.

The summit of the rock, called the Peak, is crowned by a fort.

The Mahavinayaka peak, visible from Cuttack, has been consecrated for ages to Siva-worship by ascetics and pilgrims.

Sneffels (14,158, Hayden), Ouray county, and Uncompahgre Peak (14,289), Hinsdale county, the San Miguel and Uncompahgre ranges, which are actually parts of the San Juan.

Argentine Pass (13,000 ft.), near Gray's Peak, is one of the highest wagon roads of the world; just east of Silverton is Rio Grande Pass, about 12,400 ft.

The last three places, all beautifully situated - the first at the base of Pike's Peak, the second in the Clear Creek Canyon, and the third at the junction of the Roaring Fork with the Grand river - have an especially high repute.

Pike, mapping the Arkansas and Red rivers of the Louisiana Territory for the government of the United States, followed the Arkansas into Colorado, incidentally discovering the famous peak that bears his name.

Following this summary philosophy come the sciences proper, rising like a pyramid in successive stages, the lowest floor being occupied by natural history or experience, the second by physics, the third, which is next the peak of unity, by metaphysics.

Of these the most extensive, as well as the most lofty, is that which fills up almost the whole southern portion of the island, and is generally designated by modern geographers as Mount Olympus, though that name appears to have been applied by the ancients only to one particular peak.

The main range is continued eastward by the lofty summits known as Mount Adelphi (5305 ft.), Papoutsa(5124)and Machaira or Chionia (4674), until it ends in the somewhat isolated peak called Santa Croce (Stavrovouni or Oros Stavro), the Hill of the Holy Cross (2260 ft.).

The highest points in the range are Nokrek peak (4600 ft.) in the Garo hills, Shillongpeak (6450 ft.) in the Khasi-Jaintia hills, and Japva peak (nearly io,000 ft.) in the Naga hills.

The highest mountains are found in the north, the bold peak of Kebnekaise reaching 7005 ft., Sarjektjacko, 6972 ft., being the loftiest point of a magnificent group including the Sarjeksfjall, Alkasfjall and Partefjall, which range from 6500 ft.

Cathedral Peak on Wellington Island rises to a height of 3838 ft.

It rises on the slopes of the Kasil Kuh, a peak 12,000 ft.

The western ridge culminates on the north in the peak of Kaisargarh (11,300 ft.), and the eastern in a block, or detached headland, on the south, where rests the immortal " zirat " or shrine (11,070 ft.).

From the summit of the Kaisargarh peak a magnificent view is obtained which practically embraces the whole width of northern Baluchistan.

J Y Y explored from Lhasa to the sources of the Brahmaputra and Indus, at the conclusion of the Tibetan mission in 1904, conclusively prove that Mount Everest, which appears from the Tibetan plateau as a single dominating peak, has no rival amongst Himalayan altitudes, whilst the very remarkable investigations made by permission of the Nepal durbar from peaks near Kathmandu in 1903, by Captain Wood, R.E., not only place the Everest group apart from other peaks with which they have been confused by scientists, isolating them in the topographical system of Nepal, but clearly show that there is no one dominating and continuous range indicating a main Himalayan chain which includes both Everest and Kinchinjunga.

They include Monchique, with the peak of Foya or Foia (2963 ft.), and various lower ranges.

The northern part (Czech Cesky Les) attains in the massif of Czerkov an altitude of 3300 ft., but the southern part (Czech Sumava) is at the same time the highest and the most picturesque part of the range, including on the Bohemian side the Osser (4053 ft.) and the Plockenstein (45 1 3 ft.), although the highest peak, the Arber (4872), is in Bavaria.

The northeast frontier is formed by the Sudetes, which comprise the Lausitzergebirge (2500 ft.), the Isergebirge (with the highest peak, the Tafelfichte, 3683 ft.), the Jeschkengebirge (3322 ft.), and the Riesengebirge.

The lower part of the first, like the lower valley of the Charysh, is thickly populated; in the valley of the Ulba is the Riddersk mine, at the foot of the Ivanovsk peak (6770 ft.), clothed with beautiful alpine meadows.

Turner estimates the culminating peak of Mt.

Extending in a general north-east and south-west direction through Keweenaw peninsula to the Wisconsin border and beyond is the middle of three approximately parallel ranges, separated from each other by flat lands, with here and there an isolated peak (in the Porcupine Mountains) having an elevation of from 900 to 1400 ft.

The water-works are owned and operated by the city, the water being obtained from lakes at the foot of the Arapahoe Peak glacier in the Snowy Range, 20 m.

Prices are reasonable, but call ahead for reservations during peak times.

Reservations are recommended at the small restaurant, especially during the peak dinner hours.