climax
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end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" -
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the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse -
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the decisive moment in a novel or play "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" -
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arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness -
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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" -
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the most severe stage of a disease
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(Rhet) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. "“Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope” -- a happy climax ." -
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The highest point; the greatest degree. "We must look higher for the climax of earthly good." -
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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
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In rhetoric, originally, such an arrangement of successive clauses that the last important word of one is repeated as the first important word of the next; accumulated epanastrophe; hence (since this arrangement is generally adopted for the sake of graduated increase in force or emphasis), a figure by which a series of clauses or phrases is so arranged that each in turn surpasses the preceding one in intensity of expression or importance of meaning. See anticlimax. An example of climax in both its earlier and its established meaning is found in the following passage: “We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed.” Rom. v. 3, 4. -
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In logic: A sorites, or chain of reasoning. -
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The sophism called sorites (which see). -
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The highest point of intensity, development, etc.; the culmination; acme: as, he was then at the climax of his fortunes. -
climax
To reach the highest point or climax; culminate.
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klī′maks (rhet.) the arranging of the particulars of a portion of a discourse so as to rise in strength to the last: the last term of the rhetorical arrangement: a culmination -
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Climax
to ascend in a climax: to culminate
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L., from Gr. ladder, staircase, fr. to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder Lean (v. i.)
From the downtown area in the Village of Climax to Climax -Scotts Community School, vehicles and people lined Main Street late Monday morning. blog.mlive.com
Every scene is all climax and no foreplay. houstonpress.com
Drake Recycles Elle ' Climax ' Quote in GQ. observer.com
A public outcry has persuaded the US Forest Service to ditch commercial logging plans that threatened Climax Spring in Rockcastle County. kentucky.com
Well, it figured that one of the weirdest weeks ever in Washington State football would be climaxed by a madcap finish. seattletimes.nwsource.com
Climax native to enter Atlanta Country Music Hall of Honor. thepostsearchlight.com
The latest opus by this electronic-music hero is a state-of-the-art symphony that opens with the bustling "Guilford Avenue Bridge" and climaxes with a four-part "USA" suite. cleveland.com
Sawyer takes his series to the inevitable climax. innipegfreepress.com
Further thanks that the climax was quick and clean. onlineathens.com
In the movie's climax, thugs try to throw her out of the factory. northcoastjournal.com
As you might remember, in the final scene set in the Roman Colosseum the evil emperor having wounded the gladiator-hero while the hero was immobilized in chains, then fights the thus disadvantaged hero in the dramatic climax. kitsapsun.com
Other than its hilarious climax, in which all the strings of the farce come together in a brilliant tour de force, perhaps the best scene in Crazy, Stupid Love comes when Ryan Gosling tries, with limited success, to seduce Emma Stone. toledoblade.com
Climax celebrates Flag Day . thepostsearchlight.com
A young mother of five said she will never forgive herself for beating her 2-year-old daughter because she was struggling with potty training in an angry attack that climaxed with her gluing the toddler's hands to the wall. philly.com
DALLAS (AP) — A young mother of five said she will never forgive herself for beating her 2-year-old daughter because she was struggling with potty training in an angry attack that climaxed with her gluing the toddler's hands to the wall. cherokeetribune.com
The matter came to a climax at the time of La Thuille 2000 conference when the SM fit of the whole set of available electroweak precision data became absolutely perfect: χ2 /nd.o.f . ≈ 15/14.
Extra Generations, Discrepancies of Electroweak Precision Data and Mass of the Higgs
To relate to Cosmic Ray flux variations, we use the ionchamber data and the neutron monitor data in Climax quoted in Svensmark .
The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way, Cosmic Rays, and Ice Age Epochs on Earth
Together with the ratio of the fluxes in Climax and in Huancayo/Haleakala , one can obtain that the 0.2◦K drop correlated with an increase of about 1.5% in the CR flux at Huancayo/Haleakala that presumably is responsible for the cloud cover effect.
The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way, Cosmic Rays, and Ice Age Epochs on Earth
Moreover, the index has crossed over the resisting L8 line and has continued to elevate towards the climax, as can be observed in Fig. 11.
Analysis of the trends in the index of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
However, this claim was revised as “Perhaps these fluctuations signal a transition to a different regime, to be seen in the coming years” in . The Dow has risen and formed the climax after those papers have been published and fallen to test the prices lower than $7000 in March 2009.
Analysis of the trends in the index of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Of course Jennie's departure from Cleveland brought the affairs of the Gerhardt family to a climax. "Jennie Gerhardt" by
This was the climax of strain for Pan. "Valley of Wild Horses" by
The real climax was to come after all. "The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII)" by
As a climax, marriage had "happened" to him, and he was braced for whatever might happen next. "Rope" by
The climax came when he asked to be excused from the Moore cotillion because he had three other dances for that week. "The Wall Street Girl" by
The big Earp-Clanton feud was nearing its climax. "When the West Was Young" by
The previous night had furnished the climax, a painful climax, to all he had learned of his brother's doings, of his brother's guilt. "The Law-Breakers" by
All things seem to work confusedly for evil, and this caps the climax of Ecclesiastes's misery. "Old Groans and New Songs" by
The rhododendrons were at the climax of their June glory. "" by
I fancy Juffrouw Laps would have made a pretty face if she had learned of this interpretation of her mysterious climax. "Walter Pieterse" by
He catabpults in air;
A planetary swoon
Could climax his career.
For my latchkey I started to forage
Through the keyhole I yelled to Tallulah
"Has anyone been at my porridge?"
Of cruelty insane,
Climaxing centuries of hate
That woke our souls to pain!
And are we not the living seed
Of those who did the deed!
The right is yours, as Lover and Lord.
And when in the climax of all, you slay me,
My lips in dying will seek your sword.
Its own way with din and clamour through this century of ours
Come I, while the toiling planet like some stricken monster reels
In an overheat to reach the very climax of its powers.
And quaking for him was Millie, as she followed every word;
Then just as he reached the climax, ranting and sawing the air -
Ugh! How it makes me shudder! The horrible thing occurred…