Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - culminate
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Culminate
culminate
verb (-nated; -nating) Etymology: Medieval Latin culminatus, past participle of culminare, from Late Latin, to crown, from Latin culmin-, culmen top — more at hill Date: 1647 intransitive verb 1. of a celestial body to reach its highest altitude; also to be directly overhead 2. a. to rise to or form a summit b. to reach the highest or a climactic or decisive point transitive verb to bring to a head or to the highest point
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v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by in) reach its highest or final point (the antagonism culminated in war). 2 tr. bring to its highest or final point. 3 intr. Astron. be on the meridian. Derivatives culmination n. Etymology: LL culminare culminat- f. culmen summit ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. достигать вершины, верхушки 2. достигать зенита, апогея, кульминационной точки 3. астр. проходить через небесный меридиан; кульминировать 4. (in) завершаться to culminate in victory —- завершаться победой all our efforts culminated in failure —- все наши попытки кончились неудачей ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(culminates, culminating, culminated) If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it. They had an argument, which culminated in Tom getting drunk... = conclude VERB: V in/with n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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culminate in sth phr v if a process culminates in something, it finally reaches the highest point of development or the most important result (a series of minor clashes culminating in a full scale war) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1647, from L.L. culminatus, pp. of culminare "to crown," from L. culmen (gen. culminis) "peak, summit," contraction of columen (see column). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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