Culminate vs Debouch - What's the difference?
culminate | debouch |
(astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.
* Milton
* Dana
* Motley
To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).
To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
* 2010 , "By the skin of her teeth", The Economist , 7 Sep 2010:
(geography) A narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.
* 1888 , May 26, Phillip Carroll, Sulphur Mines in Sicily , in
(military) A fortress at the end of a defile.
* 1887 , , McClellan's Own Story ,
To pour forth from a narrow opening. To emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.
:* 1985', the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers’ well which '''debouched into the arena. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
:* 1993', Ungrateful brats '''debouch from their cheap holiday in someone else’s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. — Will Self, ''My Idea of Fun
:* 1997', the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak’d, till at last '''debouching into an interior Lake of great size — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
As verbs the difference between culminate and debouch
is that culminate is (astronomy) of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude while debouch is to pour forth from a narrow opening to emerge from a narrow place like a defile into open country or a wider space.As a noun debouch is
(geography) a narrow outlet from which a body of water pours.culminate
English
Verb
(culminat)- As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
- The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
- The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating .
- Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
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New York Times
Mr. Bush has been marking the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 with a series of speeches about terrorism that culminated with his televised address last night.
- The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
- The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.
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(wikipedia debouch)Noun
(debouches)Scientific American Supplement, No 647,
- In level portions of the country vertical shafts are preferred, but where the mine is situated upon a hill a debouch may often be found below the sulphur seam, ...
- To prevent another demonstration of this character, and to insure a debouch on the south bank of the James, it became necessary to occupy Coggin's Point, which was done on the 3d, and the enemy driven back towards Petersburg.