Climax

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]”

2. isim An instance of such an ascending series.

   “[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]”

3. isim The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

   “As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.”

4. isim A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly

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

5. isim The final term of a rhetorical climax.

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

6. isim The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.

   “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.”

7. isim The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.

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

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

   “All our memories are burning in time / Like a bittersweet perfume / Can you tell me how a love that's so fine / Could have climaxed in a single afternoon?”

9. fiil To form the climax to; to be the climax of.

   “A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.”

10. özel isim A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
11. özel isim An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
12. özel isim A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
13. özel isim A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
14. özel isim An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
15. özel isim A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
16. özel isim A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
17. özel isim A hamlet in Greene County, New York.
18. özel isim An unincorporated community in Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina.
19. özel isim An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
20. özel isim An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon.
21. özel isim An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
22. özel isim An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
23. özel isim An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.