climax

climax

1. kohokohta, kliimaksi

Liittyvät sanat: summit

Synonyymisanakirja

climax

päättäminen, täydellistäminen, orgasmi, kliimaksi, hekumanhetki, laukeaminen, huipentuma, miehen orgasmi, huippukohta, käännekohta, kohokohta, tapaus, huippu, hetki, hetkinen, silmänräpäys, ajankohta.

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Englannin sanakirja

climax (englanti > suomi)

1. kliimaksi

2. huippu, huipentuma

3. kliimaksi, käännekohta

4. huippu, kliimaksi

climax englanniksi

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

2. 1589, George Puttenham, The arte of English poesie, Pt. iii, Ch. xix, l. 173:

A figure which... by his Greeke and Latine originals... may be called the marching figure... it may as well|aswell be called the climbing clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to say as a ladder.

3. puhekieltä An instance of such an ascending series.

4. 1781, John Moore, A view of society and manners in Italy, Vol. I, Ch. vi, p. 63:

...Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility...

5. puhekieltä A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:

6. 1789, Trifler, 448, No. XXXV:

In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity.

7. puhekieltä The final term of a rhetorical climax.

8. 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Ch. ix, p. 147:

When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.

9. (senseid) puhekieltä The culmination of ecological development, a stage at which point various communities of organisms are in relative equilibrium with their environment and are capable of indefinite self-perpetuation under existing conditions.

10. 1915 July 17, Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory:

The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations... are the resultants of certain climatic, geological... conditions.

11. The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.

12. 1918, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Married love, 50:

In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.

13. puhekieltä The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

14. To reach or bring to a climax

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16. To orgasm; to reach orgasm

17. English climax (all senses)

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