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Meanings of peak in English
Synonyms
Examples for "point"
Examples for "point"
1
These results therefore point to continued private sector expansion throughout the year.
2
Case in point: the current end of financial year and mid-year sales.
3
The situation in the North West is now well beyond crisis point.
4
The budget is a key point of political contention this election year.
5
A year ago, football was in crisis - up to a point.
1
Outside the top 100 stocks however, the market was in good shape.
2
So just top line question; is wearing sunscreen still a good idea?
3
The French president Emmanuel Macron said the crisis must top the agenda.
4
Yet the impact on investment banks' top lines was far from positive.
5
Myth: State schools are no good at getting children into top universities.
1
Life only in yearning; Death to crown realization; peace only in oblivion.
2
She must do what was necessary to save the crown-andher future.
3
In the meantime here is half a crown; your poetry deserves it.
4
By way of example, previously inaccessible, aromatic crown ethers compounds are synthesized.
5
We expect the crown to remain under pressure for now, they added.
1
But even at our present great height, we were in great danger.
2
Data on age, weight, and height was obtained in patients when possible.
3
The new figures followed adjustments to population size and human height estimates.
4
So long story short: How do you overcome your all-consuming height complex?
5
These changes result from changes in the height of the intervertebral discs.
1
However, journalists have been able to operate without facing extreme government censorship.
2
Such examples included reports on extreme weather events by government meteorological agencies.
3
The danger must be great indeed if they needed such extreme protection.
4
Proponents said the measure would phase out extreme means of confining animals.
5
But ranchers' land rights became big news recently, through one extreme example.
1
EU leaders hold a summit on Monday to discuss the Georgia crisis.
2
German officials said the issue would not be discussed at the summit.
3
EU leaders would review the situation at their regular summit in June.
4
The calls come ahead of an European Union summit later this week.
5
Eisenhower at the summit: 'What U-Twos?' We'll go along; no preliminary summation.
1
Under that plan, the Victorian state government would also tip in money.
2
Interventions: A 200-W, cooled-tip RF probe system was used for all cases.
3
Federal agents started investigating the business after an anonymous tip last year.
4
The refugee figures for Europe are just the tip of the iceberg.
5
Wait about 15 minutes, during which time the shadow tip will move.
1
Come June there should be no need to change the crest either.
2
The building stood in the moonlight on the crest of the hill.
3
From the radio came Rattus's words, We're just behind the topographical crest.
4
The spray torn from the crest by the wind filled the air.
5
Once more the column undulated over the tawny crest of the hill.
1
Using power of five hundred-imageperfectly steady even at this low elevation.
2
I'd heard once that elevation was good for injuries that involved swelling.
3
The general elevation of the country still appeared to be the same.
4
The difference is not in elevation or rainfall, but in the soil.
5
It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
1
For them, building an entirely new city is the pinnacle of projects.
2
The decision is the pinnacle of a disastrous year in EU-US relations.
3
Sketch map of ruins on pinnacle 7 miles north of Fossil creek
4
It was the pinnacle of what creativity meant, the impossible made real.
5
More likely, it just marks the pinnacle of a long TMT boom.
1
Pear-shaped or conical water-vessels, with animal heads at the apex; decorations simple.
2
Near the apex of the cover cut three triangular holes 8 in.
3
The statue of the Virgin was at the apex of the triangle.
4
One squirrel got right up in the apex of the roof .
5
Researches in the direction of the apex have not been made recently.
1
A B is the principal meridian; C D is the base line.
2
The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.
3
This line will be the meridian of the place you are in.
4
By about Christmas we had reached nearly the 150th meridian in lat.
5
Its centre is crossed by the sixty-fourth meridian and the thirty-second parallel.
1
The £30 million striker was at his superlative best, a constant menace.
2
The love of the superlative is deeply seated in the American mind.
3
What it means:Some things are just so awesome no superlative is sufficient.
4
Above all, though, they have made superlative moves in the transfer market.
5
How must it have felt, always being reduced to that single superlative?
1
The end in view is to represent human qualities at their acme.
2
The confusion of the garrison had now reached its acme of horror.
3
From extremes of animosity they attained the acme of love and brotherhood.
4
The apartment was very bare, mannish, and scarcely the acme of neatness.
5
If you want to reach the acme of stickiness, try this stunt.
1
The angle opposite the base of a triangle is called the vertex.
2
The vertex detector is a vital and complex component of the experiment.
3
The standard model predicts a left-handed vector coupling at the Wtb vertex.
4
Fifty paces from its vertex lay the entrance of the Hylaean Way.
5
Get the vertex once more, and all of this could be mended.
1
Busyness is no excuse for not keeping your body in tiptop shape.
2
My mother was-andis-anactress, and a tiptop crack in her profession.
3
There he is now, on the tiptop of that tree over yonder.
4
The coon ran to the very tiptop of the pine tree.
5
I have been good, absolutely tiptop beastly good, I tell you.
Usage of peak in English
1
Sea level rise as well as peak river discharges require precautionary measures.
2
However, they said evening peak traffic started an hour earlier, at 3pm.
3
He said India would not set a year when emissions will peak.
4
April 2008 was just months before the peak of the financial crisis.
5
Remember that this is the peak period of the year, he said.
6
Essentially, they plan to make all power available at peak travel times.
7
Within weeks, Orb users reduced their peak-period energy use by 40 percent.
8
The Cape Town water crisis is starting to reach peak panic mode.
9
The peak in cases was previously said to be expected in September.
10
Air conditioning is a major portion of peak energy use, he said.
11
Oil shares also rose as oil resumed its march towards record peak.
12
Is peak oil a greater threat to the world than climate change?
13
At its peak, around 1 million people were displaced by the violence.
14
Many lower-paid workers could not avoid travelling at peak times, it said.
15
Ten years ago, in 2006, Irish property prices were approaching their peak.
16
It's almost Tax Day, which also means it's peak tax fraud season.
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