peak
/piːk/ verbe C2En français : culminer, atteindre son maximum
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To raise an oar out of the water, fitting the handle into a round slot or socket located at the bottom of the boat.
- To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- 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.
- To reach the highest level of success or greatness in one's lifetime.
- To reach the point of strongest effect from a drug.
He/she/it peaks · Prétérit peaked · Participe passé peaked · Forme en -ing peaking
Formes du verbe
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
The town where she had formerly passed some years of her life, and where they were now to spend a few days, was probably as great an object of her curiosity as all the celebrated beauties of Matlock, Chatsworth, Dovedale, or the Peak.
The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green color and wore peaked hats like those of the Munchkins.
And yet those strange, peaked roofs and quaint, overhung gables were a fitting covering to grim and terrible intrigue.
There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
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