I. noun
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a mountain peak (= the top of a mountain )
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Clouds hid the mountain peaks.
a peaked cap (= worn as part of a uniform )
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She wore a sailor's peaked cap.
hit a peak/an all-time high etc
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Earnings hit a peak in the early 1980s.
reach your peak (= be the best or most successful that you will ever be )
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Most players don’t reach their peak until their late twenties.
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■ ADJECTIVE
high
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The result is shown in Fig.2; in three out of five cases a high peak is present at over 95% confidence.
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Though over 40 when she started, she would eventually climb the highest peaks on six of the seven continents.
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The summit of Kilgrimol was almost level, bearing only a small round building of stone with a high peak of thatch.
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My interest in debating reached a high peak at Duke.
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Gran Sasso to the north is the highest peak in the Apennine range, and a cable-car runs up to Campo Imperatore.
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This time she threaded her way through the high peaks of the Rockies without incident.
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More distant were higher peaks , tipped with snow.
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In the Cherangani mountains, looking towards Sondhang, one of the highest peaks in the range.
■ VERB
fall
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By 1973 the profit rate in business and manufacturing had fallen from its previous peak in each major bloc by about one-third.
hit
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Worst affected will be those who upped borrowings when miners' earnings hit a peak in the early 80s.
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It is one of several hormones that hit peak levels in the bloodstream in early adulthood and then decline steadily.
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It hit a peak on 20 October with 16,188 barrels, the highest daily figure recorded since production started in 1987.
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Terfel hits the peaks early and never falters.
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The blade hit the peak of the man's cloth-covered helmet, ringing his ears like the knell of doom.
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Since futures prices hit their peak , they have fallen by 54 percent, to around $ 1. 08 a pound.
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Printer and software sales also hit a peak .
pass
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Tax cutting may also have passed its peak .
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A few of the 1995s might be good but most almost have certainly passed their peak .
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After passing the shapely peak of Ben Resipol, the road reaches a fertile side valley occupied by the village of Strontian.
reach
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In the 1630s the tobacco boom showed signs of having reached its peak .
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Fonti was concerned about problems of access and coordination on the site now that it had reached peak activity.
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He has no immediate plans to retire, having reached a peak in his career.
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Evolution had reached its peak and was going backwards.
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I just think Tony Jacklin had reached his peak .
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Every 13 weeks Beck receives 300 units of the botulinum toxin, which reaches peak effect in about five weeks.
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As the two small squares grow so the trio reaches a peak of energy and declines into a single large square.
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It reached a peak as miners surged in against the riot shields.
rise
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Dadadadada ... He was half way through the Immelmann Turn when he became aware that Emily's commentary was rising to a peak .
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The national median rose from a peak of $ 88, 623 to $ 90, 376 over the same period.
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Above the town rose the 4,000-foot peak of Mount Wellington, the only vestige of untamed nature.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Alps' snow-covered peaks
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The Dow Jones closed at 10215 points, about 10% down from its peak
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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April, September and October are peak months for your ambitions.
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At the peak of the sugar-boom of the early 1870s a mere 40,000 workers were employed in the Czech sugar-factories.
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Figures produced at a World Energy Conference showed that oil and gas production should reach a peak between 1985 and 2000.
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Go to fast food places at peak hours, when extra cooks and cashiers are working.
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Gold fever reached its peak nine years later with the discovery of the largest nugget in Colorado history.
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The slopes and peaks were so heavily wooded with dark pines that from a distance the mountains actually looked black.
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The time of peak becomes progressively earlier.
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We found no significant difference in peak recorded serum bilirubin concentrations between the groups.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rate
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As the forecast assumed interest rates would peak at 14 percent it has already been eclipsed by events.
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The rate of business relocations peaked in 1992, then fell in 1993 and 1994.
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But the Treasury warned that it was too early to predict whether the unemployment rate had peaked .
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Birth rates for teens peaked in 1991 and have been declining since.
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In 1926, the exchange rate peaked at fifty francs to the dollar; later, it leveled off at twenty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Commentators feel that the Bears haven't peaked yet this season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fifty-one canal acts were secured between 1791 and 1796, peaking in 1793-4.
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It will likely peak in about three to five years but has the stuffing to last a decade.
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The hotel below the line where the water had finally peaked was a complete mess.
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The stock opened at 201 / 4, peaked at 203 / 4 and now trades at 9.
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Thomas' secular career peaked when he was appointed the archbishop of Canterbury.
III. adjective
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Hotel prices rise considerably during peak season.
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In the peak month of July the market sold three hundred tons of melons a day.
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There should be more buses to cope with the extra passengers at peak times.
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We usually have two people working in the shop, but at peak periods we employ extra staff.