PEAK

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peak¹I. substantiv

1. pisc, culme, creastă, creştet;

the highest peaks culmile cele mai înalte.

2. cozoroc;

rear peak apărătoare de ceafă.

3. cioc (de pasăre, ancoră, şa de bicicletă etc.).

4. vârf, ascuţiş (de barbă, acoperiş etc.).

5. (mar.) vârf de pic.

peak¹II. adjectiv

record; maxim;

peak year an record;

peak hours ore de aglomeraţie maximă.

peak² I. verb intranzitiv

1. a slăbi, a se ofili.

2. a arăta slab sau slăbit sau bolnăvicios.

peak² II. substantiv

slăbire; ofilire.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

All this while, as I say, I was still running, and without taking any notice, I had drawn near to the foot of the little hill with the two peaks and had got into a part of the island where the live-oaks grew more widely apart and seemed more like forest trees in their bearing and dimensions.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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