peak

/piːk/

意味: 頂上、最高潮

例文: Kai reached the cookie mountain’s peak.
　　  カイはクッキー山の頂上に達した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: peak performance(ピークパフォーマンス), peak season(ピークシーズン), peak demand(ピーク需要)

定義: 最高点や頂点を意味します。山の頂上や、何かの活動や状態が最も高まる時期を指します。例えば、仕事やスポーツで最も良い状態を「ピーク」と言います。

peakは約30,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the most extreme possible amount or value
Noun: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Noun: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Noun: the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
Noun: a V shape
Noun: the highest point (of something)
Noun: a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
Verb: to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

We reached the mountain peak at sunrise.(私たちは日の出に山の頂上に到達した。)
Sales usually peak during the holiday season.(売上は通常、ホリデーシーズンにピークを迎える。)
She gave her best performance at the peak moment.(彼女は最高潮の瞬間に最高の演技をした。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: voltage peak
Noun: his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty
Noun: the artist’s gifts are at their acme
Noun: at the height of her career
Noun: the peak of perfection
Noun: summer was at its peak
Noun: …catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame
Noun: the summit of his ambition
Noun: so many highest superlatives achieved by man
Noun: at the top of his profession
Noun: the view from the peak was magnificent
Noun: they clambered to the tip of Monadnock
Noun: the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
Noun: the cannibal’s teeth were filed to sharp points
Noun: at the peak of the pyramid
Noun: he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead
Verb: That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
Verb: Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): acme, apex, bill, bloom, blossom, crest, crown, efflorescence, elevation, extremum, eyeshade, flower, flush, height, heyday, meridian, peak, pinnacle, point, prime, summit, superlative, tip, tiptop, top, top out, vertex, visor, vizor

Antonyms(反意語): bottom out

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): brim, convex shape, degree, extreme point, limit, reach, time period, topographic point

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): access, acme, air alert, bill, bimester, bimillennium, birthplace, bottom out, bout, bronze age, calendar day, calendar month, camber, catch up, century, climax, clotting time, culminate, cutoff, dawn, day, decade, dog days, downtime, drought, duration, elapsed time, end, enlistment, entasis, era, eve, evening, extent, extremum, festival, field day, find, flower, fortnight, generation, get through, golden age, grave, great year, ground, half life, half-century, hiding place, high, hole-in-the-wall, holy place, honeymoon, hospitalization, hour, hours, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, iron age, junction, lactation, ladder, lease, life, long run, long time, lustrum, make, mecca, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, midweek, midwinter, millennium, morning, multistage, nesting place, night, node, novitiate, occupation, olympiad, overlook, overtime, past, peacetime, peak, phase, phase of the moon, plane, point, polling place, pool, prehistory, prohibition, projection, puerperium, quadrennium, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quickening, quinquennium, rainy day, real time, regulation time, reign, rendezvous, resultant, ridge, run, running time, scale, school, scour, season, semester, service area, shelf life, showplace, silly season, silver age, sleep, snap brim, solitude, standard of living, state of the art, stop, study hall, summit, taper, target, term, tide, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, top, top out, travel time, trial period, trimester, ultimacy, umbo, uptime, usance, vertex, wartime, watch, week, weekend, window, work time, year, youth, zone

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): crest, crown, cusp, golden age, head, hilltop, maximum, minimum, mountain peak, pinnacle, roof peak, widow’s peak

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: apical, blossom, crest, elevate, flush, meridian, peak, peaky, point, summit, superlative, top

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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