max
/maks
/informal
noun
A maximum amount or setting: the sound is distorted to the max...
- Visitors to his Pebble Beach manse find that not only are bathrooms and fridges stocked to the max but so is the supply of athletic equipment.
- So there is that strain there too, where one set of associations, if you like, are being resourced to the max, and the trade unions are not.
- For there will be a whole subsegment of patients who get placed on second and third drugs or whose doses get pushed to the max to try to meet the ideal cholesterol level.
adverb
At the most: the trip costs about 35p max
verb North American informal
Reach or cause to reach the limit of capacity or ability: [no object]: job growth in high technology will max out...
- I didn't want them knowing I was maxed to the limit.
- Within four years, the brewery had maxed out its production capacity.
- But he felt the bar business had maxed out its potential while the wine business had tremendous possibility of growth.
Rhymes
- wall-hung
- walling
- Wallingford
- wallink
- Wallis and Futuna Islands
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
- wall knot
- wall-less
- wall lizard
- wall-mounted
- Wall of Death
- wall of honor
- Walloon
- wallop
- walloper
- walloping
- Wallops Island
- wallow
- Wallowa Mountains
- wallower
- wall painting
- wallpaper
- wall pass
- wall pepper
- wall plate