peak
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
geography
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
textiles
transport
Etymology: From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”).
Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.
Inflected forms:
form: peaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more peak
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peak
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
pos: noun
examples: A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of the peaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwavering peaks.
gloss: The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
pos: noun
examples: The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
gloss: The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
pos: noun
examples: They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.
gloss: The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
pos: noun
examples: To the South we observed a large plain some ten miles wide, with snowy peaks rising on the farther side. In front was a hill projecting into the plain, on which stood a mani wall; and this latter discovery made me feel quite confident that I was on the high road to Lhassa.
gloss: visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
pos: noun
examples: peak-halyards
peak-brails
gloss: The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
pos: noun
gloss: The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
pos: noun
gloss: A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
pos: noun
gloss: Something of exceptional quality.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: There's so much peak on this website!
gloss: At the greatest extent; maximum.
pos: adj
examples: peak oil, Peak TV
gloss: Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
gloss: Bad.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
dated
examples: When they're tryna get the girl to the crib and she leaves, it's peak / Tryna keep it discreet and she tweets, it's peak / See me rolling with 20 man deep, it's peak / Yo rudeboy, pull up, repeat, it's peak
Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know?
gloss: Unlucky; unfortunate.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
dated
examples: You didn't get a spot? That's peak.
gloss: Very good or high-quality.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: That movie last night was so peak.
Derived words: afterpeak
Balfours Peak
Beauty Peak
Blackwell in the Peak
Blanca Peak
Bogong Peaks Wilderness
Borah Peak
Bragg peak
Cloud Peak
Collegiate Peaks
crosspeak
Darke Peak
Electric Peak
forepeak
Gannett Peak
ghost peak
Grays Peak
green-peak
Hayden Peak
Highland Peak
High Peak
hoddy peak
hoddy-peak
Humphreys Peak
interpeak
Luton peak
Manypeaks
Maroon Peak
multipeak
nonpeak
off-peak
peak bagging
peak-bagging
peak body
Peak Crossing
Peak Dale
peak detector
Peak District
peaker
peaker plant
peak flow
peak flow meter
Peak Forest
Peak Hill
peak hour
Peakhurst
Peakhurst Heights
peakish
peakism
peakist
peakless
peaklet
peaklike
peaknik
peak of eternal light
peak organisation
peak season
peak shaving
peak torque
peak vehicle requirement
Peak View
peakward
peakwise
photopeak
Pikes Peak
Purmerul Peak
semipeak
Spanish Peaks
stiff peak
subpeak
Telescope Peak
Twin Peaks
White Peak
widow's peak
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: maja
lang: Arabic
word: قِمَّة
roman: qimma
lang: Armenian
word: գագաթ
roman: gagatʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: cãrciliu
lang: Aromanian
word: creashtit
lang: Aromanian
word: ciumã
lang: Aromanian
word: culmã
lang: Aromanian
word: angheauã
lang: Asturian
word: cumal
lang: Asturian
word: cume
lang: Asturian
word: altu
lang: Asturian
word: picu
lang: Asturian
word: tesu
lang: Bhojpuri
word: चोटी
roman: cōṭī
lang: Bulgarian
word: връх
roman: vrǎh
lang: Bulgarian
word: чукар
roman: čukar
lang: Catalan
word: cim
lang: Catalan
word: pic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 尖峰
roman: jiānfēng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頂峰 /顶峰
roman: dǐngfēng
lang: Czech
word: vrchol
lang: Czech
word: vrcholek
lang: Dalmatian
word: čama
lang: Dutch
word: piek
lang: Esperanto
word: pinto
lang: Esperanto
word: montopinto
lang: Finnish
word: huippu
lang: French
word: cime
lang: French
word: sommet
lang: French
word: pic
lang: Galician
word: coto
lang: Galician
word: outeiro
lang: Galician
word: pico
lang: Galician
word: bico
lang: Galician
word: cume
lang: Georgian
word: მწვერვალი
roman: mc̣vervali
lang: Georgian
word: პიკი
roman: ṗiḳi
lang: German
word: Gipfel
lang: Greek
word: κορυφή
roman: koryfí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥίον
roman: rhíon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄκρον
roman: ákron
lang: Gujarati
word: શિખર
roman: śikhar
lang: Hebrew
word: פִּסְגָּה
roman: pisgá
lang: Hindi
word: चोटी
roman: coṭī
lang: Hindi
word: शिखर
roman: śikhar
lang: Hungarian
word: csúcs
lang: Hungarian
word: hegycsúcs
lang: Hungarian
word: orom
lang: Ingrian
word: kukkula
lang: Istriot
word: seîma
lang: Italian
word: cima
lang: Japanese
word: 頂上
roman: chōjō
lang: Japanese
word: 山頂
roman: sanchō
lang: Kazakh
word: шың
roman: şyñ
lang: Korean
word: 산꼭대기
roman: sankkokdaegi
lang: Korean
word: 봉우리
roman: bong'uri
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لووتکە
roman: lûtke
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دوند
roman: dund
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ترۆپک
roman: tropk
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: gupik
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: lûtke
lang: Southern Kurdish
word: لۊتگە
roman: lütge
lang: Latin
word: culmen
lang: Latin
word: columen
lang: Latvian
word: virsotne
lang: Macedonian
word: врв
roman: vrv
lang: Malay
word: puncak
lang: Malayalam
word: കൊടുമുടി
roman: koṭumuṭi
lang: Māori
word: tautara
lang: Māori
word: keo
lang: Māori
word: keokeonga
lang: Māori
word: keho
lang: Māori
word: tara
lang: Persian
word: چکاد
roman: čekâd
lang: Persian
word: قله
roman: qolle
lang: Polish
word: szczyt
lang: Polish
word: wierzchołek
lang: Polish
word: wierch
lang: Portuguese
word: pico
lang: Portuguese
word: cume
lang: Portuguese
word: topo
lang: Quechua
word: pikchu
lang: Romanian
word: culme
lang: Romanian
word: vârf
lang: Russian
word: верши́на
roman: veršína
lang: Russian
word: пик
roman: pik
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mullach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrh
lang: Sicilian
word: pizzu
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wjerch
lang: Spanish
word: cima
lang: Spanish
word: cumbre
lang: Swedish
word: topp
lang: Swedish
word: spets
lang: Tocharian B
word: mrāce
lang: Turkish
word: doruk
lang: Turkish
word: tepe
lang: Turkish
word: zirve
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قله
roman: kulle
lang: Urdu
word: چوٹی
roman: coṭī
lang: Urdu
word: شکھر
lang: Venetan
word: sima
lang: Vietnamese
word: đỉnh
lang: Walloon
word: copete
lang: Walloon
word: miercopete
lang: Walloon
word: dizeu
lang: Zazaki
word: sersıq