peak
Kelime Anlamı :

1. zirve.
2. doruk.
3. tepe noktası.
4. en yoğun olan.
5. tepe.
6. uç.
7. zayıflamak.
8. (kaskette) siper, siperlik.
9. en yoğun olduğu durum.
10. termessos.
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Tanımlar :
1. to rise upward as a peak.
2. nautical, to raise (a gaff) more obliquely to the mast.
3. to look sickly; be or become emaciated.
4. to make a mean figure; sneak.
5. an obsolete spelling of peek.
6. the maximum of a load-curve.
7. in mech., a heavy load; the heaviest load (on an engine or generator): so called because a peak or protruding point is formed in the line traced by the point of a recording dynamometer at the time of the heavy load or of a maximum load. see load, 8, and peak-load.
8. in turpentining, the angle formed by the meeting of the two streaks on the face.
9. [capitalized] A name applied to a village at one of the corners or extreme boundaries of a township: as, Derry peak, on the eastern boundary of Derry.
10. pertaining or relating to the high point in the diagram from a recording meter, due to a peak or heavy load. see peak, n., 4 and 5.
11. to accentuate.
12. of a whale, to raise (the tail or flukes) high in the air when making a perpendicular dive: this act is called by the whalers peaking the flukes. T. Beale, nat. hist. sperm whale, p. 44.
13. A projecting point; the end of anything that terminates in a point.
14. specifically— A projecting part of a head-covering; the leather vizor projecting in front of a cap.
15. the high sharp ridge-bone of the head of a setter-dog.
16. same as pee.
17. A precipitous mountain; a mountain with steeply inclined sides, or one which is particularly conspicuous on account of its height above the adjacent region, or because more or less isolated.
18. nautical: the upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff; also, the extremity of the gaff. see cut under gaff.
19. the contracted part of a ship's hold at the extremities, for ward or aft. the peak forward is called the forepeak; that aft, the after-peak. also spelled peek.
20. see peag.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia