climax

climax englannista suomeksi

1. huipentuma, huippukohta

2. kliimaksi

3. kohokohta

4. saavuttaa huippukohta

0. Substantiivi

1. kliimaksi

2. huippu, huipentuma

3. kliimaksi, käännekohta

4. huippu, kliimaksi

4. Verbi

climax englanniksi

1. A device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.

2. (quote-book ) may be called the ''marching figure'' (..) and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may well|aſwell by called the ''clyming'' figure, for ''Clymax'' is as much to ſay as a ladder,(..)

3. (RQ:Langley Rhetoric)

4. An instance of such an ascending series.

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1781|author=John Moore|title=A view of society and manners in Italy|volume=I|chapter=vi|page=63

6. (quote-book), Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788|title=Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by Chapman|Nathaniel Chapman, M.D.|location=Pa.|publisher=Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Street (Philadelphia)|Market Street|month=June|year=1788|year_published=1808|volume=I|page=474|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=oB4RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA474|oclc=230944105|passage=The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, (..) after being ''fettered'' and ''imprisoned'', led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the ''meek'' tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the ''climax'' of ''cruelties''!

7. The culmination of a narrative's action, the point.

8. (RQ:Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five)

9. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, ''particularly'':

10. {{quote-text|en|year=1789|title=Trifler|section=448, No. XXXV

11. The final term of a rhetorical climax.

12. {{quote-book|en|year=1856|author=Ralph Waldo Emerson|title=English Traits|chapter=ix|page=147

13. (senseid) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.

14. (quote-text) are the resultants of certain climatic, geological(..) conditions.

15. The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.

16. {{quote-text|en|year=1918|author=Marie Carmichael Stopes|title=Married love|section=50

17. To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).

18. {{quote-web|en|date=May 31, 2012|work=AV Club|author=Tasha Robinson|title=Snow White And The Huntsman

19. {{quote-text|en|year=2018|author=Craig Snyder|title=The Boxers of Youngstown Ohio

20. (quote-journal)

21. To form the climax to; to be the climax of.

22. (l) (all senses)

23. climax

24. (l)