Peak vs Elevate - What's the difference?
peak | elevate |
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
(geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
(nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
* Holland
To become sick or wan.
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
* Shakespeare
To pry; to peep slyly.
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
In lang=en terms the difference between peak and elevate
is that peak is to pry; to peep slyly while elevate is to increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.As verbs the difference between peak and elevate
is that peak is to reach a highest degree or maximum or peak can be to become sick or wan or peak can be while elevate is to raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.As a noun peak
is a point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.As an adjective elevate is
(obsolete) elevated; raised aloft.peak
English
(wikipedia peak)Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
- By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
Synonyms
* apex, pinnacle, top, summit * See alsoDerived terms
* peakless * peaklike * peakwiseVerb
(en verb)- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
- There peaketh up a mighty high mount.
Synonyms
* culminateDerived terms
* off-peakEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- Dwindle, peak , and pine.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
