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8 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peak \Peak\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peaking}.]
1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand.
2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. ''Dwindle, peak, and pine.'' --Shak.
3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak.
{Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peak \Peak\, verb (used with an object) (Naut.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peak \Peak\, noun [OE. pek, AS. peac, perh of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. peac a sharp-pointed thing. Cf. {Pike}.]
1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. ''Run your beard into a peak.'' --Beau. & Fl.
2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
Silent upon a peak in Darien. --Keats.
3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also {pea} and {pee}.]
{Fore peak}. (Naut.) See under {Fore}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peag \Peag\, noun [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North American Indian origin, by shortening of wampumpeag. --RHUD.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. See also {wampum}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peak
adjective
1: of a period of maximal use or demand or activity; "at peak hours the streets traffic is unbelievable" [ant: {off-peak}]
2: approaching or constituting a maximum; "maximal temperature"; "maximum speed"; "working at peak efficiency" [syn: {highest}, {peak(a)}]
noun
1: the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak" [syn: {extremum}]
2: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: {flower}, {prime}, {heyday}, {bloom}, {blossom}, {efflorescence}, {flush}]
3: the highest level or degree attainable; "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" [syn: {acme}, {height}, {elevation}, {pinnacle}, {summit}, {superlative}, {top}]
4: the top point of a mountain or hill; "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the summit of Monadnock" [syn: {crown}, {crest}, {top}, {tip}, {summit}]
5: a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points" [syn: {point}, {tip}]
6: the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid" [syn: {vertex}, {apex}, {acme}]
7: a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" [syn: {bill}, {eyeshade}, {visor}, {vizor}]
verb: to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
269 Moby Thesaurus words for "peak": acme, acme of perfection, all, allophone, alp, alveolar, apex, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apogee, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, be poised, bilabial, bill, billow, boom, bore, bottoming out, break, breakers, brim, brow, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cacuminal, cap, capstone, ceiling, cerebral, check, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, climax, cloud nine, cog, comb, comber, consonant, consummate, consummation, continuant, cooling off, crag, crash, crest, crisis, crown, culmen, culminate, culmination, dash, decline, dental, depression, diphthong, dirty water, dissimilation, downturn, droop, dwindle, eagre, ebb and flow, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edge, elevation, eminence, end, epenthetic vowel, expanding economy, expansion, explosive, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, fade, fail, fang, flag, frost, glide, glottal, glottalization, gravity wave, ground swell, growth, guttural, harrow, head, heave, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell, height, high growth rate, high noon, high point, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, hill, hilltop, ice, jag, knoll, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, languish, laryngeal, last word, lateral, lift, limit, lingual, liquid, lofty peak, lop, lose strength, low, manner of articulation, market expansion, maximum, meridian, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mount, mountain, mountaintop, mute, nasal, ne plus ultra, nib, no place higher, noon, nth degree, occlusive, outtop, overarch, overtop, palatal, parasitic vowel, peaking, pecten, perfection, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, pic, pico, pike, pine, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, plosive, point, pole, popple, precipice, projection, prosperity, prothetic vowel, rake, ratchet, recession, recovery, retroflex, ridge, riffle, ripple, rise, rise and fall, roll, roller, roof, rough water, run down, sawtooth, scend, sea, segmental phoneme, semivowel, send, seventh heaven, sink, sky, slowdown, slump, smash, snag, snaggle, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, stop, summit, surd, surf, surge, surmount, swell, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, the whole, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tip, tip-top, tooth, top, top off, top out, tor, toss, transition sound, triphthong, trough, tsunami, ultimate, undulate, undulation, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, upturn, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, velar, vertex, very top, visor, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, waste, waste away, water wave, wave, wavelet, weaken, white horses, whitecaps, wilt, wither, wither away, zenith
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Peak, SC (town, FIPS 55150) Location: 34.23811 N, 81.32906 W Population (1990): 78 (37 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Peak, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina Population (2000): 61 Housing Units (2000): 36 Land area (2000): 0.268859 sq. miles (0.696341 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000671 sq. miles (0.001738 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.269530 sq. miles (0.698079 sq. km) FIPS code: 55150 Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45 Location: 34.237174 N, 81.325737 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Peak, SC Peak
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