Culminate

['kʌlmɪneɪt] or ['kʌlmɪnet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) rise to, or form, a summit; 'The helmet culminated in a crest'.

(verb.) bring to a head or to the highest point; 'Seurat culminated pointillism'.

(verb.) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; 'The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace'.

(verb.) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body.

(verb.) reach the highest or most decisive point.

比安卡手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

(v. i.) To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.

(a.) Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

辛迪校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Be on the meridian.[2]. Reach the highest point, be at the highest point.

格罗夫斯整理

解釋/意思:

v.i. (astron.) to be vertical or at the highest point of altitude: to reach the highest point (with in).—adj. Cul′minant at its highest point.—n. Culminā′tion act of culminating: the top: (astron.) transit of a body across the meridian or highest point for the day.

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