Synonyms of the word

peak

• n. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• n. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
• n. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
• n. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
• n. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
• n. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
• n. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is…
• v. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
• v. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
• v. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
• v. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
• v. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
• v. Misspelling of pique.

acme

• n. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
• n. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
• n. Mature age; full bloom of life.

apex

• n. The highest point of something.
• n. (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
• n. (geometry) The topmost vertex of a cone or pyramid (in their conventional orientation).
• n. (chiefly anatomy) The pointed end of something.
• n. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support;…
• n. (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun appears to move relative to nearby…
• n. (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
• n. (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
• n. (typography) A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
• n. (typography) A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.

attain

• v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
• v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
• v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
• v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
• v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
• v. (obsolete) To overtake.

bill

• n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
• n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
• n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
• n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
• v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
• n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
• n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
• n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
• v. (obsolete) To peck.
• v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
• n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
• n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
• n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
• n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
• n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
• n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
• n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
• n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
• n. A set of items presented together.
• v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
• v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
• n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

bloom

• n. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
• n. Flowers, collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
• n. (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection,…
• n. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums,…
• n. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
• n. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
• n. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
• n. (mineralogy) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
• n. (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
• v. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
• v. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
• v. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing…
• n. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.

blossom

• n. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
• n. The state or season of producing such flowers.
• n. (figuratively) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
• n. The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
• v. (intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
• v. (intransitive) To begin to thrive or flourish.

brim

• n. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
• n. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
• n. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
• n. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
• v. To be full to overflowing.
• v. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
• v. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

crest

• n. A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the…
• n. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament…
• n. (heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics)…
• n. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
• n. The ridge or top of a wave.
• n. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
• n. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
• n. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
• n. The top line of a slope or embankment.
• n. A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
• n. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
• v. Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
• v. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
• v. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

crown

• n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
• n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists,…
• n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
• n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
• n. (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
• n. (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
• n. The topmost part of the head.
• n. The highest part of a hill.
• n. The top section of a hat, above the brim.
• n. The raised centre of a road.
• n. The highest part of an arch.
• n. Splendor; culmination; acme.
• n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation)…
• n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
• n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
• n. (forestry) The top of a tree.
• n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
• n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
• n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
• n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
• n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
• n. (paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
• n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central…
• n. (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
• n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
• n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
• n. The dome of a furnace.
• n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
• n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
• n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
• n. (African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for…
• adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
• adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
• v. To place a crown on the head of.
• v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
• v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
• v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
• v. To declare (someone) a winner.
• v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as…
• v. To hit on the head.
• v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video…
• v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
• v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
• v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
• v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
• v. (obsolete) past participle of crow.

degree

• n. (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
• n. An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
• n. A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
• n. (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
• n. (now rare) One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
• n. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
• n. A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university…
• n. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
• n. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
• n. (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
• n. (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
• n. (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc…

efflorescence

• n. (chemistry) The formation of a powdery surface on crystals, as a hydrate is converted to anhydrous form…
• n. (botany) The production of flowers.
• n. (construction) An encrustation of soluble salts, commonly white, deposited on the surface of stone, brick,…
• n. (geology) An encrustation of soluble salts, deposited on rock or soil by evaporation; often found in arid…
• n. (figuratively) Rapid flowering of a culture or civilisation etc.
• n. (pathology) A redness, rash, or eruption on the skin.

elevation

• n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
• n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
• n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
• n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
• n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
• n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
• n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
• n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

extreme

• adj. Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
• adj. In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
• adj. Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
• adj. Drastic, or of great severity.
• adj. Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
• adj. (archaic) Ultimate, final or last.
• n. The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
• n. Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
• n. A drastic expedient.
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
• adv. (archaic) Extremely.

extremum

• n. (mathematics) a point, or value, which is a maximum or a minimum.

eyeshade

• n. (countable) A type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light, usually consisting of a visor…
• n. (not countable) A cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye…

flower

• n. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various…
• n. (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and…
• n. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
• n. (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
• n. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
• n. (idiomatic) The best examples or representatives of a group.
• n. The best state of things; the prime.
• n. (obsolete) Flour.
• n. (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from…
• n. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
• n. (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
• n. (in the plural) Menstrual discharges.
• v. (intransitive) To put forth blooms.
• v. (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
• v. (intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
• v. (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
• n. (rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

gain

• prep. (obsolete) Against.
• adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
• adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
• adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
• adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
• adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
• adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
• n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
• n. What is gained.
• n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
• v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
• v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
• v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
• v. (transitive) To reach.
• v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
• v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
• v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
• n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…

height

• n. The distance from the base of something to the top.
• n. The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the…
• n. The highest point or maximum degree.
• n. A mountain, especially a very high one.
• n. (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.

heyday

• n. A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
• interj. A lively greeting.
• interj. (obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

level

• adj. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
• adj. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
• adj. Unvaried in frequency.
• adj. Unvaried in volume.
• adj. Calm.
• adj. In the same position or rank.
• adj. Straightforward; direct; clear.
• adj. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
• adj. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection ; monotonic.
• n. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
• n. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
• n. Degree or amount.
• n. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
• n. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered…
• n. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
• n. A floor of a multi-storey building.
• n. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
• n. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
• v. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
• v. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
• v. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
• v. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
• v. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To levy.
• v. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege,…
• v. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• v. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

limit

• n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
• n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
• n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
• adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
• v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

limitation

• n. The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
• n. A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
• n. An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.
• n. (law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

meridian

• n. (geography) An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles.
• n. Either half of such a great circle, all points of which have the same longitude.
• n. (astronomy) A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular…
• n. (mathematics) A similar line on any general surface of revolution.
• n. (alternative medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which the vital energy is thought to flow…
• n. The highest point, as of success, prosperity, etc.; culmination.
• n. (printing, US, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
• adj. Meridional; relating to a meridian.
• adj. Relating to noon.
• adj. Relating to the highest point or culmination.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

pinnacle

• n. The highest point.
• n. A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
• n. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
• n. (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute…
• v. to put something on a pinnacle.
• v. to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

prime

• adj. First in importance, degree, or rank.
• adj. First in time, order, or sequence.
• adj. First in excellence, quality, or value.
• adj. (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
• adj. (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
• adj. (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
• adj. Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
• adj. Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
• adj. (obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
• n. (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
• n. (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
• n. (obsolete) The early morning generally.
• n. (now rare) The earliest stage of something.
• n. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
• n. The chief or best individual or part.
• n. (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
• n. (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword…
• n. (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
• n. (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of…
• n. (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
• n. The symbol ′.
• n. (chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element;…
• n. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
• n. (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
• v. (transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
• v. (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
• v. (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes…
• v. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
• v. To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
• v. (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
• n. (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

summit

• n. (countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
• n. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
• v. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.

superlative

• n. The highest extent or degree of something.
• n. (grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the…
• n. (informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
• adj. Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
• adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.

tip

• n. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
• n. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility…
• n. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
• n. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
• n. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to knock over, make fall down or overturn.
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
• v. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
• v. (transitive) To dump (refuse).
• v. (US, transitive) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
• v. (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
• n. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
• n. An act of tipping up or tilting.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse,…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
• n. (colloquial) A very untidy place.
• n. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips.
• v. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
• n. (now rare) A light blow or tap.
• v. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
• v. (thieves′ slang) To give, pass.
• n. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token…
• n. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting…
• n. A piece of advice.
• v. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
• n. (African American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

tiptop

• n. The very topmost point.
• n. (figuratively) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

top

• n. The highest part or component of an object.
• n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A top quark.
• n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
• n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
• n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
• n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
• n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
• v. To cover on the top or with a top.
• v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
• v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
• v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
• v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
• v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
• v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
• v. (archaic) To predominate.
• v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
• v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
• v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
• v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
• v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
• v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
• v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
• v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
• adj. Situated on the top of something.
• adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
• adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
• adv. Rated first.

vertex

• n. The highest point of something.
• n. (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
• n. (geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting…
• n. (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
• n. (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
• n. (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
• n. (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
• n. (nuclear or particle physics) An interaction point.
• n. (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal…

visor

• n. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and…
• n. A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
• n. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

vizor

• n. Alternative form of visor.