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peak
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /pi?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
- Homophones: peek, peke, pique
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)
- 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.
- 2002, Joy of Cooking: All About Cookies ?ISBN, page 29:
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- Synonyms: apex, pinnacle; see also Thesaurus:apex
- 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[1]," 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.
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- Synonyms: summit, top
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land Chapter 62
- 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.
- 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land Chapter 62
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- ? Polish: pik
Verb
peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie
- There peaketh up a mightie high mounte.
- 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie
- (nautical, transitive) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
Synonyms
- culminate
Translations
Adjective
peak (comparative more peak, superlative most peak)
- maximal, maximally quintessential or representative; constituting the culmination of
- (MLE) Bad
- (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate
Synonyms
- (bad): See Thesaurus:bad
- (unlucky): See also Thesaurus:unlucky
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Verb
peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Related terms
- peaky
Etymology 3
Noun
peak (uncountable)
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”)
Etymology 4
Verb
peak
- Misspelling of pique.
Anagrams
- Paek, kaep, kape
Basque
Noun
peak
- absolutive plural of pe
- ergative singular of pe
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visor
English
Alternative forms
- vizor
Etymology
From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?va?z?/
- Rhymes: -a?z?(?)
Noun
visor (plural visors)
- A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
- A mask for the face.
- 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
- No visor does become black villainy
So well as soft and tender flattery.
- No visor does become black villainy
- 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
- The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Related terms
- vizard
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From vide? (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine v?sum +? -tor, from Proto-Italic *wid?? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?i?.sor/, [?u?i?s??r]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /??i?.sor/, [??i?sor]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vi.sor/, [?vi?s??r]
Noun
v?sor m (genitive v?s?ris); third declension
- one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
- one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
v?sor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of v?s? (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)
References
- visor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1684
- visor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 3519
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
visor f
- (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
- (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?so?/, [bi?so?]
Noun
visor m (plural visores)
- visor
Swedish
Noun
visor
- indefinite plural of visa
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