| 单词 | culminate |
| 释义 | culminate (once / 907 pages) 1v 2v The verb culminate is used to describe a high point or a climactic stage in a process. For example, the goal of a Major League baseball team is to have their season culminate in a World Series victory. The word culminate derives from the Latin word culminatus, the past participle of culminare, which means "to top, to crown." Don’t be afraid of the Latin: it’s on your side. Knowing the Latin origin can help you remember the meaning of culminate. Use culminate when you are referring to a crowning moment or a final conclusion: “I want my experiments combining strawberry jam with burnt toast to culminate in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.” WORD FAMILYculminate: culminated, culminates, culminating, culmination+/culmination: culminations USAGE EXAMPLESCelebrations will culminate on Dec. 6, the day Finnish Parliament declared independence in 1917 amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Time(Jan 01, 2017) The evening culminates with a midnight “Copley Countdown.” Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) One of them culminated in a summer program in Greece, where for three weeks he and his classmates studied ancient art and architecture. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace Syn|Hypo|Hyper climax crown, top be the culminating event cease, end, finish, stop, terminate have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical 2v bring to a head or to the highest point 2Seurat culminated pointillism Hyper end, terminate bring to an end or halt 1v reach the highest or most decisive point Hyper accomplish, achieve, attain, reach to gain with effort 2v reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body Hyper arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach reach a destination, either real or abstract 3v rise to, or form, a summit The helmet culminated in a crest Hyper form assume a form or shape |
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