The difference between Peak and Throat
When used as nouns, peak means a point, whereas throat means the front part of the neck.
When used as verbs, peak means to reach a highest degree or maximum, whereas throat means to utter in or with the throat.
Peak is also adjective with the meaning: bad.
check bellow for the other definitions of Peak and Throat
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Peak as a noun:
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
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Peak as a noun:
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
Examples:
"synonyms: apex pinnacle Thesaurus:apex"
"The stock market reached a peak in September 1929."
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Peak as a noun (geography):
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
Examples:
"synonyms: summit top"
"They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing."
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Peak as a noun (geography):
The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
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Peak as a noun (nautical):
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Examples:
"'peak-halyards"
"'peak-brails"
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Peak as a noun (nautical):
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
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Peak as a noun (nautical):
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
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Peak as a noun (mathematics):
A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
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Peak as a verb:
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
Examples:
"Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay."
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Peak as a verb:
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
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Peak as a verb (nautical, transitive):
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
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Peak as an adjective (MLE):
Bad
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Peak as an adjective (MLE):
Unlucky; unfortunate
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Peak as a verb (intransitive):
To become sick or wan.
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Peak as a verb (intransitive):
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
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Peak as a verb (intransitive):
To pry; to peep slyly.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Peak as a noun:
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Peak as a verb:
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Throat as a noun:
The front part of the neck.
Examples:
"The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat."
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Throat as a noun:
The gullet or windpipe.
Examples:
"As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat."
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Throat as a noun:
A narrow opening in a vessel.
Examples:
"The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle."
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Throat as a noun:
Station throat.
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Throat as a noun:
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
Examples:
"rfquotek Gwilt"
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Throat as a noun (nautical):
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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Throat as a noun (nautical):
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
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Throat as a noun (nautical):
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
Examples:
"rfquotek Totten"
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Throat as a noun (shipbuilding):
The inside of a timber knee.
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Throat as a noun (botany):
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
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Throat as a verb (now, uncommon):
To utter in or with the throat.
Examples:
"to throat threats"
"rfquotek Chapman"
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Throat as a verb (informal):
To take into the throat. .}}
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Throat as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.