Prow vs Peak - What's the difference?
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(nautical) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary – prow [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prow%5B1%5D]
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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.
In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between prow and peak
is that prow is (nautical) the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself while peak is (nautical) the extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.As nouns the difference between prow and peak
is that prow is (nautical) the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself or prow can be while 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 prow
is (archaic) brave, valiant, gallant merriam webster’s online dictionary – prow [http://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/prow%5b1%5d].As a verb peak is
to reach a highest degree or maximum or peak can be to become sick or wan or peak can be .prow
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia prow) From (etyl) (m), from Genoese Italian (m), (m), from (etyl) prora, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
- We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.
Synonyms
* proreEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) prou, from prode; more at (proud).Adjective
(er)- For they be two the prowest knights on ground, / And oft approu’d in many hard assay
References
Etymology 3
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)