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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From earlierpeake,peek,peke, fromMiddle Englishpek (in place names), itself an alteration ofpike,pyke,pyk(“a sharp point, pike”), fromOld Englishpīc,piic(“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), fromProto-West Germanic*pīk, fromProto-Germanic*pīkaz(“peak”).

Cognate withDutchpiek(“pike, point, summit, peak”),Danishpik(“pike, peak”),Swedishpik(“pike, lance, point, peak”),Norwegianpik(“peak, summit”). More atpike.

Noun

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peak (pluralpeaks)

  1. Apoint; thesharpend ortop of anything thatterminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of acap.
    • 2002,Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies,→ISBN, page29:
      A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of thepeaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwaveringpeaks.
  2. The highestvalue reached by somequantity in atime period.
    Synonyms:apex,pinnacle;see alsoThesaurus:apex
    The stock market reached apeak in September 1929.
    • 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt,New York Times, retrieved24 October 2012:
      By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at itspeak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
  3. (geography) Thetop, or one of the tops, of ahill,mountain, orrange, ending in apoint.
    Synonyms:summit,top
    They reached thepeak after 8 hours of climbing.
  4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
    • 1898,Arnold Henry Savage Landor, chapter 62, inIn the Forbidden Land:
      To the South we observed a large plain some ten miles wide, with snowypeaks 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.
  5. (clothing, UK)visor(horizontal part of acap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
  6. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of afore-and-aft sail.
    peak-halyards
    peak-brails
  7. (nautical) Thenarrow part of avessel'sbow, or thehold within it.
  8. (nautical) Theextremity of ananchorfluke; thebill.
  9. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value ofy is at its maximum.
  10. (uncountable, Internetslang) Something ofexceptional quality.
    There's so muchpeak on this website!
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Translations
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point, sharp end
highest value reached
mountain top
upper-after corner of sail
narrow part of bow
tip of anchor fluke
point where a function attains a maximum
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Verb

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peak (third-person singular simple presentpeaks,present participlepeaking,simple past and past participlepeaked)

  1. (transitive, nautical) Toraise thepoint of (agaff) closer toperpendicular.
  2. (transitive, signal processing) Toexceed themaximumsignalamplitude of (a piece ofequipment), resulting inclipping of the signal.
    • 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, inSCP Foundation‎[1], archived fromthe original on25 May 2024:

      "Dr. Reynders?" Udo prodded.

      "Yes!" the woman shouted,peaking the speakers with a screech. "Of course I am! What the hell else could this be?! Of course I'm seeing double! And hearing double! AND THINKING DOUBLE! AND I'M DOING THE BEST I CAN WITH IT, BUT IT'S GETTING TO BE JUST A LITTLE BITMUCH!" Her voice grew increasingly hoarse as it grew in volume, finally cracking on the last word.

  3. (intransitive)
    1. Toreach ahighestdegree ormaximum.
      Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began topeak and ultimately decay.
    2. Torise orextend into apeak orpoint; toform, orappear as, apeak.
  5. (gender-criticalslang)Ellipsis ofpeak trans.
    • 2019 August 4, Alison Weir (@WeirAlison),Twitter‎[2]:
      I came to this via sport but the thing that reallypeaked me was this.
    • 2019 August 31, MrsMiggins (@MrsMiggins13),Twitter‎[3]:
      My friendpeaked me last year, at the GRA [Gender Recognition Act] consultation.
    • 2021 November 22, DefendingMySisters (@DefendingMy),Twitter‎[4]:
      Solidarity from Spain, @jk_rowling. Thank you forpeaking so many people all over the world.
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:peak.
Synonyms
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Translations
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to reach a peak
to rise or extend into a peak, to form or appear as a peak

Adjective

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peak (comparativemorepeak,superlativemostpeak)

  1. At thegreatest extent;maximum.
  2. (slang)Maximal,quintessential,archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing theculmination of its type.
    Knowing obscure 19th-century slang ispeak nerd.
  3. (MLE)Bad.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:bad
    • 2015, “ItsPeak”, performed byTinie Tempah (featuringStormzy andBugzy Malone):
      When they're tryna get the girl to the crib and she leaves, it'speak / Tryna keep it discreet and she tweets, it'speak / See me rolling with 20 man deep, it'speak / Yo rudeboy, pull up, repeat, it'speak
    • 2023,Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed byRaine Allen-Miller,Rye Lane, spoken by Dom (David Jonsson):
      Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did waspeak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know?
  4. (MLE)Unlucky;unfortunate.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:unlucky
    You didn't get a spot? That'speak.
  5. (Internetslang) Verygood orhigh-quality.
    That movie last night was sopeak.

Etymology 2

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Unknown. Perhaps related to Etymology 1 above in the sense of "becoming pointed" through emaciation.[1]

Verb

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peak (third-person singular simple presentpeaks,present participlepeaking,simple past and past participlepeaked)

  1. (intransitive) To becomesick orwan.
  2. (intransitive) Toacquiresharpness offigure orfeatures; hence, to lookthin or sickly.
  3. (intransitive) Topry; topeepslyly.
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “peak”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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peak (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form ofpeag(“wampum”).

Etymology 4

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Verb

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peak (third-person singular simple presentpeaks,present participlepeaking,simple past and past participlepeaked)

  1. Misspelling ofpique.

Anagrams

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Basque

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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peak

  1. inflection ofpe:
    1. absolutiveplural
    2. ergativesingular
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