Definitions for peaks

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peaks peak

Spelling: [peek]

IPA: /pik/

Peaks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in peaks (aekps).

Definitions for peaks

noun

1. the pointed top of a mountain or ridge.
2. a mountain with a pointed summit.
3. the pointed top of anything.
4. the highest or most important point or level:
5. the maximum point, degree, or volume of anything:
6. a time of the day or year when traffic, use, demand, etc., is greatest and charges, fares, or the like are at the maximum:
7. the higher fare, charges, etc., during such a period:
8. Physics. the maximum value of a quantity during a specified time interval: the maximum power consumed or produced by a unit or group of units in a stated period of time.
9. a projecting point:
10. widow's peak.
11. a projecting front piece, or visor, of a cap.
12. Phonetics. nucleus (def 8a).
13. Nautical. the contracted part of a ship's hull at the bow or the stern. the upper after corner of a sail that is extended by a gaff. the outer extremity of a gaff.

adjective

1. Also, on-peak. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active:
2. constituting the highest or maximum level, volume, etc.; optimal; prime:

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to raise the after end of (a yard, gaff, etc.) to or toward an angle above the horizontal.

verb (used without object)

1. to project in a peak.
2. to attain a peak of activity, development, popularity, etc.:
3. to become weak, thin, and sickly.

Origin of peaks

1520-30; perhaps Middle Low German pēk pick, pike

Examples for peaks

Wotan walked around the peak, drawing a line with his spear.

At his year-end, pre-Hawaii press conference, we caught a rare glimpse of peak Obama.

That was the extent of it during the peak of the flames, and the numbers that swooshed around in the press the next day.

"I will ask one of the engine-drivers, my lady," he answered, with his hand at the peak of his cap.

At length, when we were nearly under the peak, he began to ascend.

The series came to life just as the era of “hatewatching” was at its peak.

They seem to involve the bore of a climb without the pleasure of a peak.

At its peak, his business made as much as $30,000 a year—provided he worked the entire month of December.

And however high a peak you climb, the plain is still as high as the peak.

Following a peak of 153 new cases a week in August, Lofa was down to just four new cases for the week ending Nov. 1.