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Definition peak

Etymology 1

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English *peke, *pek (attested in peked, variant of piked), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English p?c, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz (“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

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.
2. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
3. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
4. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
5. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
6. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
7. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
8. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.

Verb

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

1. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
2. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
3. (nautical, transitive) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.

Adjective

peak (comparative more peak, superlative most peak)

1. (MLE) Bad
2. (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate
3. maximal, maximally quintessential or representative; constituting the culmination of

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

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.
3. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.

Etymology 3

Noun

peak (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”)

Etymology 4

Verb

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

1. Misspelling of pique.

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