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climax /ˈklʌɪmaks /noun1The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; the culmination: she was nearing the climax of her speech a thrilling climax to the game...- He used the word ‘journey’ again and again especially as the speech reached its climax.
- On this note, this year's Arab summit ritual reached its climax.
- Glover also provides the eerie guitar noodling and intense emotional climaxes.
Synonyms peak, pinnacle, height, high point, highest point, summit, top; acme, zenith, apex, apogee, apotheosis; culmination, crowning point, crown, crest; crescendo, finale, denouement; highlight, high spot, best part, high water mark 1.1An orgasm.Ejaculation is normally the climax in a male orgasm....- Sexual climax or orgasm is the healthy, normal, inevitable, outcome of the three preceding stages.
- Use this information as the basis for achieving a strong sexual climax and ejaculate.
Synonyms orgasm, sexual climax; ejaculation 1.2 Ecology The final stage in a succession in a given environment, at which a plant community reaches a state of equilibrium: [as modifier]: near the equator the tropical rainforest is the climax vegetation a mixed hardwood climax forest...- Eventually, hardwood trees invade and replace the pines, forming the hardwood climax community.
- He instructed Shenandoah officials to restore the Blue Ridge's climax community as it existed before humans impacted the environment.
- Established climax pecan forests became the first commercial pecan production groves in the mid-1800s.
1.3 Rhetoric A sequence of propositions or ideas in order of increasing importance, force, or effectiveness of expression.First-rate writers don't need to create plotty ‘suspense’ in order to achieve their moral climaxes....- The climax forces the audience to challenge their previous judgments and provides a short sharp twist in this story that captures the imagination.
- Sudden lurches and climaxes and rolling tympani increase the tension.
verb [no object]1Culminate in an exciting or impressive event; reach a climax: the day climaxed with a gala concert...- The event climaxed with a band concert given by The Dragoon Guards, at a sunset ceremony in Imphal Barracks.
- Their first year climaxed with the Kinshasa newspaper Elima naming the band the best orchestra, Wemba best singer, and their single, ‘Mere Superieure,’ best song.
- The highlight of the concert was the Indian composition, ‘Stimulation’, a beautiful piece that climaxed with a deluge of percussion.
Synonyms culminate, peak, come to a climax, reach a pinnacle, come to a crescendo; result, end, come to a head 1.1 [with object] Bring (something) to a climax: three goals in the last two minutes climaxed a thrilling game...- But for a lot more others, the build-up to the red day begins this weekend with a movie before climaxing it next Tuesday with dinner.
- For openers, the Farley Hill presentation climaxing the week-long festival was spread over two days.
- It was a lovely affair, climaxing a series of dinners, receptions and gab-fests among old friends.
1.2Have an orgasm.While ejaculation offered proof that a man had reached climax, a female orgasm was confirmed by physiological measurements such as heart rate and anal pressure....- Is it me he is thinking of when he climaxes, or them?
- Sipski and Alexander reported that 11 of 25 women with all levels of spinal injury were able to climax.
Synonyms have an orgasm, reach/achieve orgasm; ejaculate informal come, feel the earth move, get one's rocks off British informal come off literary die OriginMid 16th century (in rhetoric): from late Latin, from Greek klimax 'ladder, climax'. The sense 'culmination' arose in the late 18th century. The word was first used in rhetoric for a number of propositions set forth in a series, increasing in force or effectiveness of expression. It comes from Greek klimax ‘ladder, climax’. The sense ‘culmination’ arose in the late 18th century from popular misuse of the learned word.
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