peak

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

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

The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.

Đồng nghĩa: apex, pinnacle, acme, apex, zenith, apogee, apotheosis, ascendance, capstone, climax, coronation, crown, culmination, Everest, extreme, fastigium, high note, high point, high tide, high-water mark, midday, outblossom, paroxysm, perihelion, pinnacle, summa, summit

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

They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.

Đồng nghĩa: summit, top

(geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.

(UK)(clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)

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

peak-halyards

peak-brails

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

(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

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

(Internet, uncountable)(uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.

There's so much peak on this website!

(alt of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).

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

(transitive)(transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.

(intransitive)To reach a highest degree or maximum.

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

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

(intransitive)To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime.

(intransitive)To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug.

(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)(gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.

(intransitive)To become sick or wan.

(intransitive)To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.

(intransitive)To pry; to peep slyly.

(alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of pique.

At the greatest extent; maximum.

peak oil, Peak TV

(slang)Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.

Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.

(Multicultural London English, dated)(MLE, dated) Bad.

Đồng nghĩa: abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack

(Multicultural London English, dated)(MLE, dated) Unlucky; unfortunate.

You didn't get a spot? That's peak.

Đồng nghĩa: down on one's luck, fortuneless, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, infortunate, hapless, luckless, misadventurous, mischanceful, misfortuned, peak, snakebit, thwart, unchancy, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpropitious, unlucky, wanchancy

(Internet)(Internet slang) Very good or high-quality.

That movie last night was so peak.