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climax
Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers.cli·max C0406600 (klī′măks′)n.1. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination. See Synonyms at summit.2. a. A series of statements or ideas in an ascending order of rhetorical force or intensity.b. The final statement in such a series.3. a. A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis.b. The turning point in a plot or dramatic action.4. See orgasm.5. Ecology A climax community.tr. & intr.v. cli·maxed, cli·max·ing, cli·max·es To bring to or reach a climax.
[Latin clīmax, rhetorical climax, from Greek klīmax, ladder; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]climax (ˈklaɪmæks) n1. the most intense or highest point of an experience or of a series of events: the party was the climax of the week. 2. (Theatre) a decisive moment in a dramatic or other work3. (Rhetoric) a rhetorical device by which a series of sentences, clauses, or phrases are arranged in order of increasing intensity4. (Environmental Science) ecology the stage in the development of a community during which it remains stable under the prevailing environmental conditions5. (Physiology) Also called: sexual climax (esp in referring to women) another word for orgasmvbto reach or bring to a climax[C16: from Late Latin, from Greek klimax ladder]cli•max (ˈklaɪ mæks)
n. 1. the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. a. a rhetorical figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity. b. the last term or member of this figure. 4. an orgasm. 5. the stable and self-perpetuating end stage in the ecological succession of a plant and animal community. v.t., v.i. 6. to bring to or reach a climax. [1580–90; < Late Latin < Greek klîmax ladder, akin to klinein to lean] climax - First described propositions in rhetoric, one rising above the other in effectiveness; it comes from Greek klimax, "ladder."See also related terms for rhetoric.climax
Past participle: climaxed
Gerund: climaxing
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| I climax | | you climax | | he/she/it climaxes | | we climax | | you climax | | they climax |
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| I climaxed | | you climaxed | | he/she/it climaxed | | we climaxed | | you climaxed | | they climaxed |
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| I am climaxing | | you are climaxing | | he/she/it is climaxing | | we are climaxing | | you are climaxing | | they are climaxing |
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| I have climaxed | | you have climaxed | | he/she/it has climaxed | | we have climaxed | | you have climaxed | | they have climaxed |
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| I was climaxing | | you were climaxing | | he/she/it was climaxing | | we were climaxing | | you were climaxing | | they were climaxing |
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| I had climaxed | | you had climaxed | | he/she/it had climaxed | | we had climaxed | | you had climaxed | | they had climaxed |
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| I will climax | | you will climax | | he/she/it will climax | | we will climax | | you will climax | | they will climax |
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| I will have climaxed | | you will have climaxed | | he/she/it will have climaxed | | we will have climaxed | | you will have climaxed | | they will have climaxed |
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| I will be climaxing | | you will be climaxing | | he/she/it will be climaxing | | we will be climaxing | | you will be climaxing | | they will be climaxing |
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| I have been climaxing | | you have been climaxing | | he/she/it has been climaxing | | we have been climaxing | | you have been climaxing | | they have been climaxing |
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| I had been climaxing | | you had been climaxing | | he/she/it had been climaxing | | we had been climaxing | | you had been climaxing | | they had been climaxing |
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| I would climax | | you would climax | | he/she/it would climax | | we would climax | | you would climax | | they would climax |
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| I would have climaxed | | you would have climaxed | | he/she/it would have climaxed | | we would have climaxed | | you would have climaxed | | they would have climaxed |
climaxThe arrangement of sentences or clauses in such a way as to build in intensity.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | climax - the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"flood tidejuncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" | | 2. | climax - the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"culminationstory - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"moment, instant, minute, second - a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" | | 3. | climax - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourseorgasm, sexual climax, comingconsummation - the act of bringing to completion or fruitionmale orgasm - an orgasm accompanied by the sensation of ejaculation of semen | | 4. | climax - the most severe stage of a diseasedegree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" | | 5. | climax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulnessrhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | | Verb | 1. | climax - end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"culminatecrown, top - be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting"end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
climaxnoun1. culmination, head, top, summit, height, highlight, peak, pay-off (informal), crest, high point, zenith, apogee, high spot (informal), acme, ne plus ultra (Latin) Reaching the Olympics was the climax of her career.verb1. culminate, end, finish, conclude, peak, come to a head They did a series of charity events climaxing in a millennium concert.climaxnounThe highest point or state:acme, apex, apogee, crest, crown, culmination, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, top, zenith.Informal: payoff.Medicine: fastigium.verbTo reach or bring to a climax:cap, crest, crown, culminate, peak, top (off or out).Translationsclimax (ˈklaimӕks) – plural ˈclimaxes – noun the highest point; the most dramatic moment. the climax of the novel. 頂點 顶点climax
Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers.come to a closeTo reach an end point. If there are no other issues to discuss, then this meeting can come to a close. The play's lengthy run on Broadway comes to a close tonight.See also: close, comebring something to a close and bring something to an end; bring something to a climaxto end something; to cause something to reach its final point and stop. I think it is time to bring this matter to a close. The incident has been brought to a climax.See also: bring, closecome to a close and come to an end; come to a climaxto end; to progress to an ending. The celebration came to an end about midnight.See also: close, comeClimax
Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers.climax1. a decisive moment in a dramatic or other work 2. Ecology the stage in the development of a community during which it remains stable under the prevailing environmental conditions 3. (esp in referring to women) another word for orgasm ClimaxA number of design ideas so arranged that each succeeding one makes a stronger statement than its predecessor. The final culmination or highest point is the summation of the process.  Climax in geobotany, the final and relatively stable state of vegetation that results from replacement or succession (a series of successive replacements) of the plant cover. The concept of climax was elaborated in detail by the American phytocenologist H. Cowles in 1901. The American botanist F. Clements considered climax a process equivalent to the individual development of an organism; he believed that for every large, climatically homogeneous territory there was only one final formation (one climax). However, a phytocenosis as a whole is not capable of multiplying and, moreover, the succession that completes a climax occurs on the basis of uniting heterogeneous elements (species) on a common territory and not on the basis of differentiation of a single organism, as occurs in individual development. The concept of climax as a relatively stable state attained by vegetation in the process of its development in a definite place has both theoretical and practical interest. It permits forecasting the direction of the natural course of replacement of vegetation, which is important in planning meliorative measures and exploitation of forest, meadow, and steppe lands. REFERENCESAleksandrova, V. D. “Dinamika rastitel’nogo pokrova.” In the collection Polevaia geobotanika, vol. 3. Moscow-Leningrad, 1964.
Shennikov, A. P. Vvedenie v geobotaniku. Leningrad, 1964.A. A. URANOV
Climax stylistic gradation, an intonational and syntactic sequence whose members are arranged in order of increasing significance (as opposed to enumeration, where they are of equal strength). For example,the lines of S. Esenin: Ne zhaleiu, ne zovu, ne plachu, Vse proidet, kak s belykh iablon’ dym. I am not sorry, I do not call, I do not weep, All will pass like blossoms from white apple trees.
Climax the world’s largest deposit of molybdenum ore; located in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at an altitude of 3,500 m. The deposit has been known since the end of the 19th century; exploratory work started in 1917. The Climax deposit is located among very ancient Precam-brian granite, gneiss, and crystalline schist that have been separated by a major fault, the Mosquito fault, from the sedimentary Carboniferous rock that has developed farther to the west. The deposit arose under the effect of postmagmatic hydrothermal processes related to the intrusion of magmatic rock (monzoniteporphyries) along the stock fault. The deposit is zonal in structure. Its core, with a diameter of around 500 m, is composed of heavily crushed quartz rock with a minuscule molybdenum content. Around the core is a ring-like zone of commercial molybdenum ores 100 to 300 m wide; it has been traced to a depth of 500 m with drilling. The zone consists of hydrothermally reworked fissured intrusive rock broken by numerous mineral veins. These veins form a pipe-like stockwork. In addition to the widely developed molybdenite and pyrite, the veins of ore minerals have wolframite, cassiterite, and monazite. The molybdenum reserves (with an average content of 0.4 percent) have been estimated at 1.2–1.6 million tons. The annual molybdenum output is 15,000–20,000 tons (1969). Tungsten, tin, and monazite and pyrite concentrates are also extracted from the Climax ores. REFERENCESSmirnov, V. I. Geologiia poleznykh iskopaemykh, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1969.
Khrushchov, N. A. Molibden. (Otsenka mestorozhdenii pri poiskakh i razvedkakh, vol. 19.) Moscow-Leningrad, 1961.V. I. SMIRNOV
Climax the point or period of greatest upsurge or maximum intensity in the development of anything. In the arts (literature, theater, motion pictures) it is the most tense moment in the action (plot), the turning point in the protagonists’ relationships and conflicts, after which begins the transition to the denouement. In terms of content, the climax is an ordeal that brings to a head the problem treated in an artistic work and clearly reveals the hero’s character—for example, the scene in which a shot is heard in A. P. Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. climax[′klī‚maks] (ecology) A mature, relatively stable community in an area, which community will undergo no further change under the prevailing climate; represents the culmination of ecological succession. climax
Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers.climax [kli´maks] the period of greatest intensity, as in the course of a disease.cli·max (klī'maks), 1. The height or acme of a disease; its stage of greatest severity. 2. Synonym(s): orgasm [G. klimax, staircase] climax The peak of an orgasm; the point in time when a (sexual) sensation is the greatest.climax Orgasm, see there. cli·max (klī'maks) 1. The height or acme of a disease; its stage of greatest severity. 2. Synonym(s): orgasm. [G. klimax, staircase]climax 1. A point of maximal intensity in a progression of events. 2. An ORGASM. climax a plant community that has reached stability and is in equilibrium with the climatic conditions appertaining at the time; for example, oak woodland in Britain. A SUCCESSION of climaxes resulting from climatic change is called a clisere, though some climax communities are the result of human interference; for example, the felling of woodland has resulted in the loss of the oak woodland, the natural climax community in lowland Britain, and of the pine forest which is the natural climax in the Highlands of Scotland.cli·max (klī'maks) 1. The height or acme of a disease; its stage of greatest severity. 2. Colloq. an orgasm.[G. klimax, staircase]climax
Note: This page may contain terms or definitions that are offensive or inappropriate for some readers.ClimaxA situation in which a security's price has risen (or fallen) very quickly and very high (or low) on heavy trading volume. A climax is often followed by steep price correction. See also: Buying climax, Selling climax, Reversion to the mean.climax See buying climax, selling climax.climax
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Synonyms for climaxnoun culminationSynonyms- culmination
- head
- top
- summit
- height
- highlight
- peak
- pay-off
- crest
- high point
- zenith
- apogee
- high spot
- acme
- ne plus ultra
verb culminateSynonyms- culminate
- end
- finish
- conclude
- peak
- come to a head
Synonyms for climaxnoun the highest point or stateSynonyms- acme
- apex
- apogee
- crest
- crown
- culmination
- height
- meridian
- peak
- pinnacle
- summit
- top
- zenith
- payoff
- fastigium
verb to reach or bring to a climaxSynonyms- cap
- crest
- crown
- culminate
- peak
- top
Synonyms for climaxnoun the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfoldingSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun the decisive moment in a novel or playSynonymsRelated Words- story
- moment
- instant
- minute
- second
noun the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourseSynonyms- orgasm
- sexual climax
- coming
Related Wordsnoun the most severe stage of a diseaseRelated Wordsnoun arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulnessRelated Wordsverb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stageSynonymsRelated Words- crown
- top
- end
- cease
- terminate
- finish
- stop
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