From the word’s history
From Middle English pek, an alteration of pike 'a sharp point', from Old English pīc.
源自中古英文 pek,是 pike「尖端」的變體。
You can picture peak as the sharp pointed top of a mountain — the single highest point where everything and there is nowhere higher to go. From this one image grow both the literal pointed shapes (a cap's peak, a pointed tip) and the figurative 'highest moment/level' uses, where a graph rises to its top point and then falls.
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原始詞典資料29 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Peakname
- 1
A surname.
peaknoun詞源 1/piːk/
- 1
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- 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.
- 2
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- 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.
- 3
geographynatural-sciencesThe 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.
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geographynatural-sciencesThe whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- 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.
- 5
businessclothingfashionvisor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- 6
nauticaltransportThe upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- peak-halyards
- peak-brails
- 7
nauticaltransportThe narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- 8
nauticaltransportThe extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesA local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- 10
Orgasm.
- As she came to her peak, he was with her all the way, making her crash, moan, say his name again and again.
- 11
Something of exceptional quality.
- There's so much peak on this website!
peakverb詞源 1/piːk/
- 1
nauticaltransportTo raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsTo exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- 3
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
- 4
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- There peaketh up a mightie high mounte.
- 5
To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime.
- 6
To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug.
peakadj詞源 1/piːk/
- 1
At the greatest extent; maximum.
- peak oil, Peak TV
- 2
slangMaximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
- Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
- These icons are simply unmatched and timeless. They can’t even get away from them to this day, they just flattened them. Vista was peak design and we’ve regressed since then.
- 3
Bad.
- 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?
- 4
Unlucky; unfortunate.
- You didn't get a spot? That's peak.
- 5
Very good or high-quality.
- That movie last night was so peak.
- [Siri:] Joz said, team, these apricots are peak. Have they always been this good? Why has no one told me?
peakverb詞源 2/piːk/
- 1
To become sick or wan.
- 2
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- Dwindle, peak, and pine.
- 3
To pry; to peep slyly.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- peak trans
- peag
- pique
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