culminate
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/
美 /ˈkʌl.məˌneɪt/|/ˈkal.mɪ.næɪt/
英文释义
动词 v.
- Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
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To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
— As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
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To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
— Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
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To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
— Approaching from the south on foot, elements of the CG battalion were first to come into contact and their attack culminated because the rate and accuracy of the VC small arms fire. The CG battalions attempted two assaults to penetrate[…]
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To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
— I would like to know if there are any true moralists who would like to correspond with someone who just instinctively feels there's something wrong somewhere in this unbenevolent world and wants to save it by culminating love and eradicating the captive emotions of the self (Ego).
形容词 adj.
- Relating to the culmen.
- Growing upward, as opposed to lateral growth.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
First attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, highest point”, oblique stem culmin-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.
词源 2
First attested in 1846; by surface analysis, Latin culmen (oblique stem culmin-) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), see Etymology 1.
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