CLIMAX

[`klaɪmæks]

(наи)высшая точка, верх, кульминация, кульминационный пункт

нарастание

оргазм

климакс, климактерический период, менопауза

климакс

довести до высшей точки, кульминации

дойти до высшей точки, достичь кульминации

climax: translation

1 exciting/important event, point in time, etc.

▪ big, dramatic, exciting, explosive, grand, great, powerful, stunning, thrilling

▪ emotional

▪ fitting

▪ inevitable

▪ come to, hit (AmE), reach

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The crisis reached its climax in the 1970s.

▪ approach, build to, build up to, near, work up to

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The story gradually builds to a powerful climax.

▪ bring sth to

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The affair was brought to a climax when the chairman resigned.

▪ form, mark, represent

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Yesterday marked the climax of the celebrations.

▪ come

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The climax came at the end of the second act of the play.

▪ at the climax

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The hero dies at the climax of the opera.

▪ in a/the climax

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In a dramatic climax, our team lost by one goal.

▪ climax to

▪

His promotion was a fitting climax to a worthy career.

2 highest point of sexual pleasure

▪ sexual

▪ achieve, reach

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She found it hard to achieve a/reach climax.

climax: translation

achieve satisfaction, acme, acme of perfection, act of love, adultery, all, apex, aphrodisia, apogee, apoplexy, ass, balling, bench mark, bitter end, breakup, brow, button up, cap, capstone, cardinal point, carnal knowledge, carry to completion, cataclysm, catastrophe, ceiling, chief thing, clean up, close out, close up, cloud nine, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, come, commerce, complete, completion, conclude, conclusion, congress, connection, consummate, consummation, content, convulsion, copestone, copula, copulation, core, cornerstone, coupling, crest, crisis, critical point, crossroads, crown, crux, culmen, culminate, culmination, denouement, diastrophism, diddling, disaster, edge, ejaculate, end, end result, essence, essential, essential matter, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, final result, final stroke, final touch, finale, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, finisher, finishing stroke, fit, fornication, frost, fundamental, get done, get it over, get off, get through, get through with, gist, gravamen, great point, head, heart, heaven, heavens, height, high noon, high point, highest degree, highest pitch, highest point, ice, important thing, intercourse, intimacy, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, last act, last stroke, last touch, last word, limit, lovemaking, main point, main thing, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, material point, mating, maximum, meat, meridian, milestone, mop up, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, noon, nth degree, nub, onanism, orgasm, outtop, overarch, overthrow, overtop, ovum, pareunia, paroxysm, payoff, peak, perfect, perfection, pink, pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, pith, pivot, please, point, pole, procreation, quake, reach orgasm, real issue, relations, ridge, round out, salient point, satisfy, screwing, seventh heaven, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sine qua non, sky, sleeping with, spasm, sperm, spire, stroke, substance, substantive point, summit, surmount, temblor, terminate, termination, the bottom line, the point, the whole, tidal wave, tip, tip-top, top, top off, top out, tsunami, turning point, ultimate, upheaval, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, venery, vertex, very top, wind up, wrap up, zenith

1. [ʹklaıməks] n

1. высшая точка; кульминационный пункт

2. ритор. нарастание

3.физиол. климакс (у мужчин и женщин); менопауза, прекращение менструаций

4. оргазм

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to cap the climax - переходить все границы; побить рекорд (чего-л.)

2. [ʹklaımæks] v

1. дойти или довести до кульминационного пункта

2. испытать оргазм