Peaky

Definition

peak /pi:k/ n ၁။ (usu sing ) အထြတ္။ အထြတ္အထိပ္။ အျမင့္ဆံုး။ အမ်ားဆံုး။ အေခါင္အဖ်ား။ Traffic reaches a peak between 8 and 9 in the morning. ❍ She's at the peak of her career. ❍ peak periods/production ❍ employ additional staff during the peak summer season ❍ peak hours (ie when demand for sth, eg electricity, is highest) ❍ peak viewing time (ie when the greatest number of people are watching television) ❍ peak rate calls (ie made during the busiest period and charged at the highest rate). Compare OFF-PEAK ၂။ (က) ေတာင္ထြတ္။ ေတာင္ ထိပ္။ The plane flew over snow-covered peaks. (ခ) ေတာင္ခြၽန္း။ The climbers made camp halfway up the peak. ၃။ ဦးထုပ္လွ်ာ။ ၄။ သြယ္ခြၽန္းေသာ ပံုသဏၭာန္၊ အစြန္း အဖ်ား။ ျမင့္ေမာက္ခြၽန္ထြက္ေသာ အရာ။ the peak of a roof ❍ hair combed into a peak. v အျမင့္မားဆံုးျဖစ္သည္။ ထိပ္သို႔ေရာက္သည္။ Toy sales peak just before Christmas. ❍ Demand for electricity peaks in the early evening. ❍ The rate of increase peaked at 34%. ❏ peaked adj ျမင့္ေမာက္ေသာ။ သြယ္ခြၽန္းေသာ။ a peaked cap/roof. ❏ peaky adj ( infml ) ျဖဴဖပ္ျဖဴေရာ္။ look a bit peaky.

Examples

1. The city’s population is about 400
2. 000
3. down from a peak of 750
4. 000 in the late 1960s.
5. The traffic reaches its peak at about 8.30 in the morning.
6. [at your/its peak] : Sampras was at his peak in the 1990s.
7. [reach your/its peak] : The Ottoman Empire reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries.
8. The higher the peak
9. the louder the sound.
10. Snow-covered peaks
11. One of the hardest peaks in Europe for climbers
12. Whip the cream continuously until it thickens and stands in peaks.