'PEAK' definitions:
Definition of 'peak'
From: WordNet
noun
The most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak" [syn: extremum, peak]
noun
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush]
noun
The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top]
noun
The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit" [syn: peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit]
noun
noun
noun
A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" [syn: bill, peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor]
verb
To reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" [syn: top out, peak] [ant: bottom out]
Definition of 'Peak'
From: GCIDE
- Peak \Peak\, v. t. (Naut.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peak'
From: GCIDE
- Peak \Peak\ (p[=e]k), n. [OE. pek, AS. peac, perh of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. peac a sharp-pointed thing. Cf. Pike.]
- 1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. "Run your beard into a peak." --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. [1913 Webster]
- Silent upon a peak in Darien. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also pea and pee.] [1913 Webster]
- Fore peak. (Naut.) See under Fore. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peak'
From: GCIDE
- Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Peaked (p[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Peaking.]
- 1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. [1913 Webster]
- There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX model peaked at 20,000 per year. [PJC]
- 3. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [Cf. Peek.] To pry; to peep slyly. [archaic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'peak'
From: GCIDE
- Peag \Peag\ (p[=e]g), n. [Written also peage, peak, peeke.] [Prob. of North American Indian origin, by shortening of wampumpeag. --RHUD.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. See also wampum. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'peak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- all,
- allophone,
- alp,
- alveolar,
- apex,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- apogee,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- be poised,
- bilabial,
- bill,
- billow,
- boom,
- bore,
- bottoming out,
- break,
- breakers,
- brim,
- brow,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- cacuminal,
- cap,
- capstone,
- ceiling,
- cerebral,
- check,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- cog,
- comb,
- comber,
- consonant,
- consummate,
- consummation,
- continuant,
- cooling off,
- crag,
- crash,
- crest,
- crisis,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culminate,
- culmination,
- dash,
- decline,
- dental,
- depression,
- diphthong,
- dirty water,
- dissimilation,
- downturn,
- droop,
- dwindle,
- eagre,
- ebb and flow,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- edge,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- end,
- epenthetic vowel,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- explosive,
- extreme,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- fade,
- fail,
- fang,
- flag,
- frost,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gravity wave,
- ground swell,
- growth,
- guttural,
- harrow,
- head,
- heave,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- height,
- high growth rate,
- high noon,
- high point,
- highest degree,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hill,
- hilltop,
- ice,
- jag,
- knoll,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- languish,
- laryngeal,
- last word,
- lateral,
- lift,
- limit,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lofty peak,
- lop,
- lose strength,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- market expansion,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mount,
- mountain,
- mountaintop,
- mute,
- nasal,
- ne plus ultra,
- nib,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- nth degree,
- occlusive,
- outtop,
- overarch,
- overtop,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peaking,
- pecten,
- perfection,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- pic,
- pico,
- pike,
- pine,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- plosive,
- point,
- pole,
- popple,
- precipice,
- projection,
- prosperity,
- prothetic vowel,
- rake,
- ratchet,
- recession,
- recovery,
- retroflex,
- ridge,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- roll,
- roller,
- roof,
- rough water,
- run down,
- sawtooth,
- scend,
- sea,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- send,
- seventh heaven,
- sink,
- sky,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- smash,
- snag,
- snaggle,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spire,
- sprocket,
- spur,
- steeple,
- stop,
- summit,
- surd,
- surf,
- surge,
- surmount,
- swell,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- the whole,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- tooth,
- top,
- top off,
- top out,
- tor,
- toss,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- ultimate,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- upturn,
- utmost,
- utmost extent,
- uttermost,
- velar,
- vertex,
- very top,
- visor,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- waste,
- waste away,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- weaken,
- white horses,
- whitecaps,
- wilt,
- wither,
- wither away,
- zenith
Acronyms for 'PEAK'
From: V.E.R.A.
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Peak, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Peak, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000) :
61
Housing Units (2000) :
36
Land area (2000) :
0.268859 sq. miles (0.696341 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000671 sq. miles (0.001738 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.269530 sq. miles (0.698079 sq. km)
FIPS code :
55150
Located within :
South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location :
34.237174 N, 81.325737 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.