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    • 1.1 Pronunciation
    • 1.2 Etymology 1
      • 1.2.1 Noun
        • 1.2.1.1 Derived terms
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        • 1.2.1.3 Translations
      • 1.2.2 Verb
        • 1.2.2.1 Synonyms
        • 1.2.2.2 Translations
      • 1.2.3 Adjective
    • 1.3 Etymology 2
      • 1.3.1 Verb
        • 1.3.1.1 Derived terms
      • 1.3.2 References
    • 1.4 Etymology 3
      • 1.4.1 Noun
    • 1.5 Etymology 4
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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:peakWikipedia

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: pēk, IPA(key): /piːk/
  • Rhymes: -iːk
  • Homophones: peek, peke, pique
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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peak (plural peaks)

  1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
    • 2002, Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies, →ISBN, page 29: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. Synonyms: apex, pinnacle; see also Thesaurus:apex The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
    • 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, New York Times, retrieved 24 October 2012: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. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. Synonyms: summit, top They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.
  4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
    • 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, chapter 62, in In the Forbidden Land: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. (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
  6. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail. peak-halyards peak-brails
  7. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  8. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  9. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
  10. (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality. there's so much peak on this website
Derived terms
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  • afterpeak
  • Beauty Peak
  • Blackwell in the Peak
  • Blanca Peak
  • 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
  • Maroon Peak
  • multipeak
  • nonpeak
  • off-peak
  • peak bagging
  • peak-bagging
  • peak body
  • Peak Dale
  • peak detector
  • Peak District
  • peaker
  • peaker plant
  • peak flow
  • peak flow meter
  • Peak Forest
  • peak hour
  • peakish
  • peakism
  • peakist
  • peakless
  • peaklet
  • peaklike
  • peaknik
  • peak of eternal light
  • peak organisation
  • peak season
  • peak shaving
  • peak torque
  • peak vehicle requirement
  • peakward
  • peakwise
  • photopeak
  • Pikes Peak
  • Purmerul Peak
  • semipeak
  • Spanish Peaks
  • stiff peak
  • subpeak
  • Telescope Peak
  • Twin Peaks
  • widow's peak
Descendants
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  • → German: Peak
  • → Russian: пик (pik) (in час пик (čas pik))
Translations
[edit] point, sharp end
  • Albanian: maja (sq)
  • Aromanian: ciumã f
  • Bulgarian: остър връх (ostǎr vrǎh), пик m (pik)
  • Catalan: punta (ca) f, visera (ca) f (of a cap)
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎪᎵ (usgoli)
  • Czech: špička (cs) f
  • Esperanto: akraĵo, kresto (eo)
  • Finnish: kärki (fi), lippa (fi)
  • French: pic (fr) m
  • Galician: bico (gl)
  • Georgian: წვერო (c̣vero)
  • Hebrew: קָדְקוֹד (he) m (qodqód)
  • Hungarian: csúcs (hu)
  • Irish: stuaic f
  • Japanese: 頂点 (ja) (ちょうてん, chōten), 尖頭 (ja) (せんとう, sentō)
  • Korean: 정점(頂點) (ko) (jeongjeom)
  • Latin: cacūmen n
  • Macedonian: врв (mk) m (vrv)
  • Occitan: pic (oc) m
  • Plautdietsch: Spetz f
  • Portuguese: ponta (pt) f
  • Romanian: vârf (ro) n
  • Russian: ко́нчик (ru) m (kónčik), остриё (ru) n (ostrijó)
  • Sicilian: pizzu (scn) m, punta (scn) f, spicu m,
  • Walloon: dibout (wa) m, ponte (wa) f, coron (wa) m
highest value reached
  • Aromanian: ciumã f
  • Bulgarian: максимум (bg) m (maksimum)
  • Catalan: pic (ca) m
  • Czech: vrchol (cs) m, maximum (cs) n
  • Esperanto: supro
  • Finnish: huippu (fi)
  • French: pic (fr), sommet (fr) m
  • German: Höchststand (de) m
  • Hebrew: שִׂיא (he) m (si)
  • Hindi: सर्वोच्च (sarvocc)
  • Italian: picco (it)
  • Kazakh: шың (şyñ)
  • Malay: kemuncak (ms)
  • Malayalam: ഉച്ചി (ml) (ucci)
  • Persian: اوج (fa) (owj)
  • Portuguese: cume (pt) f, pico (pt) m
  • Romanian: culme (ro) f, vârf (ro) n
  • Russian: пик (ru) m (pik)
  • Sicilian: pizzu (scn) m, punta (scn) f
  • Spanish: pico (es) m, plenitud (es) f
  • Walloon: copete (wa) f, miercopete (wa) f
mountain top
  • Albanian: maja (sq)
  • Arabic: قِمَّة f (qimma)
  • Armenian: գագաթ (hy) (gagatʻ)
  • Aromanian: cãrciliu n, creashtit n, ciumã f, culmã f, angheauã f
  • Bhojpuri: चोटी (cōṭī)
  • Bulgarian: връх (bg) m (vrǎh), чукар (bg) m (čukar)
  • Catalan: cim (ca) m, pic (ca) m (sharped)
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 尖峰 (zh) (jiānfēng), 頂峰 / 顶峰 (zh) (dǐngfēng)
  • Czech: vrchol (cs), vrcholek (cs)
  • Dalmatian: čama m
  • Dutch: piek (nl)
  • Esperanto: pinto (eo), montopinto
  • Finnish: huippu (fi)
  • French: cime (fr) f, sommet (fr) m, pic (fr)
  • Galician: coto (gl) m, outeiro (gl) m, pico (gl) m, bico (gl) m, cume (gl) m
  • Georgian: მწვერვალი (mc̣vervali), პიკი (ṗiḳi)
  • German: Gipfel (de) m
  • Greek: κορυφή (el) f (koryfí) Ancient: ῥίον n (rhíon), ἄκρον n (ákron)
  • Gujarati: શિખર (gu) (śikhar)
  • Hebrew: פִּסְגָּה (he) f (pisgá)
  • Hindi: चोटी (hi) f (coṭī), शिखर (hi) m (śikhar)
  • Hungarian: csúcs (hu), hegycsúcs (hu), orom (hu)
  • Ingrian: kukkula
  • Istriot: seîma f
  • Italian: cima (it) f
  • Japanese: 頂上 (ja) (ちょうじょう, chōjō), 山頂 (ja) (さんちょう, sanchō)
  • Kazakh: шың (şyñ)
  • Korean: 산꼭대기 (sankkokdaegi)
  • Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لووتکە (lûtke), دوند (dund), ترۆپک (tropk) Northern Kurdish: gupik (ku), lûtke (ku) Southern Kurdish: لۊتگە (lütge)
  • Latin: culmen n, columen n
  • Latvian: virsotne (lv) f
  • Macedonian: врв (mk) m (vrv)
  • Malay: puncak (ms)
  • Malayalam: കൊടുമുടി (ml) (koṭumuṭi)
  • Maori: tautara, keo, keokeonga, keho, tara
  • Ottoman Turkish: قله (kulle)
  • Persian: چکاد (fa) (čekâd), قله (fa) (qolle)
  • Polish: szczyt (pl) m, wierzchołek (pl) m, wierch (pl) m
  • Portuguese: pico (pt) m, cume (pt) m, topo (pt) m
  • Quechua: pikchu
  • Romanian: culme (ro) f, vârf (ro) n
  • Russian: верши́на (ru) f (veršína), пик (ru) m (pik)
  • Scottish Gaelic: mullach m
  • Serbo-Croatian: vrh (sh) m
  • Sicilian: pizzu (scn) m
  • Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wjerch m
  • Spanish: cima (es) f
  • Swedish: topp (sv) c, spets (sv) c
  • Tocharian B: mrāce
  • Turkish: doruk (tr), tepe (tr)
  • Urdu: چوٹی (coṭī), شکھر m
  • Venetan: sima f
  • Vietnamese: đỉnh (vi)
  • Walloon: copete (wa) f, miercopete (wa) f, dizeu (wa) m
  • Zazaki: sersıq
upper-after corner of sail
  • Scottish Gaelic: mullach m
narrow part of bow
  • Finnish: keulapiikki
tip of anchor fluke
  • Finnish: kynsi (fi)
point where a function attains a maximum
  • Catalan: pic (ca) m
  • Czech: maximum (cs) n
  • Dutch: maximum (nl) n
  • Finnish: maksimipiste
  • German: Maximum (de) n
  • Japanese: 最大値 (ja) (さいだいち, saidaichi), 尖頭値 (せんとうち, sentōchi), ピーク (ja) (pīku)
  • Macedonian: врв (mk) (vrv)
  • Romanian: maxim (ro) n
  • Russian: пик (ru) m (pik), ма́ксимум (ru) m (máksimum)
  • Sicilian: màssimu (scn) m
  • Swedish: topp (sv)
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked
  • Albanian: (please verify) majë (sq) f
  • Irish: (please verify) píce m
  • Italian: (1,2) (please verify) culmine (it) m
  • Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) vrh (sh) m

Verb

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peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
  2. (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
    • 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 25 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 BIT MUCH!" Her voice grew increasingly hoarse as it grew in volume, finally cracking on the last word.

  3. (intransitive)
    1. To reach a highest degree or maximum. Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
    2. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
      • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:There peaketh up a mightie high mounte.
  4. (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
    • 2019 August 4, Alison Weir (@WeirAlison), Twitter‎[2]:I came to this via sport but the thing that really peaked me was this.
    • 2019 August 31, MrsMiggins (@MrsMiggins13), Twitter‎[3]:My friend peaked me last year, at the GRA [Gender Recognition Act] consultation.
    • 2021 November 22, DefendingMySisters (@DefendingMy), Twitter‎[4]:Solidarity from Spain, @jk_rowling. Thank you for peaking so many people all over the world.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peak.
Synonyms
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  • culminate
Translations
[edit] to reach a peak
  • Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: vrcholit impf, kulminovat (cs) impf
  • Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: saavuttaa huippunsa, olla korkeimmillaan
  • Georgian: please add this translation if you can
  • German: kulminieren (de), gipfeln (de)
  • Greek: κορυφώνομαι (el) (koryfónomai)
  • Hungarian: tetőzik (hu), kulminál (hu)
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
  • Korean: please add this translation if you can
  • Malay: puncak (ms)
  • Romanian: culmina (ro)
  • Russian: please add this translation if you can
  • Serbo-Croatian: kulminirati (sh)
  • Spanish: culminar (es)
  • Thai: please add this translation if you can
  • Zazaki: pik resen, ser resen
to rise or extend into a peak, to form or appear as a peak
  • Finnish: nousta huipulle (to rise); olla huippu (to form)

Adjective

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peak (comparative more peak, superlative most peak)

  1. At the greatest extent; maximum. peak oil, Peak TV
  2. (slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type. Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
  3. (MLE) Bad. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bad
    • 2015, “Its Peak”, performed by Tinie Tempah (featuring Stormzy and Bugzy Malone):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
    • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine 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 was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know?
  4. (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unlucky You didn't get a spot? That's peak.
  5. (Internet slang) Very good or high-quality. That movie last night was so peak.

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 present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
  2. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:Dwindle, peak, and pine.
  3. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
Derived terms
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  • peaked
  • peaky

References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “peak”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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peak (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).

Etymology 4

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Verb

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peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

  1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

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  • kaep, Paek, pake, kape

Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /peak/ [pe.ak]
  • Rhymes: -eak, -ak
  • Hyphenation: pe‧ak

Noun

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peak

  1. inflection of pe:
    1. absolutive plural
    2. ergative singular
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