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max
1[ maks ]
adjective
adverb
verb phrase
- to reach a point at which no more improvement, profit, or benefit can occur; level off:
In her last job she maxed out at $25,000 a year.
- to reach the limit of one's capacity, endurance, etc.:
The sales department has maxed out and needs more personnel to call on new clients.
Max
2[ maks ]
noun
- a male given name, form of Maximilian.
MAX
3abbreviation for
- Cinemax: a cable television channel.
max.
4abbreviation for
- maximum.
max
1/ mæks /
noun
- the most significant, highest, furthest, or greatest thing
- to the maxto the ultimate extent
max.
2abbreviation for
- maximum
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Word History and Origins
Origin of max1
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Idioms and Phrases
- to the max, to the greatest or furthest degree; totally:
That book is disgusting to the max.
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Example Sentences
“The reason a lot people don’t do tempos, or don’t do them correctly, is because they don’t know what their max heart rate is or what their hour-run pace is,” Finley says.
Despite all the scary warnings the weather brings, and the fact that the firefighting force has been operating at “max capacity” since August, Mecham said San Diego is prepared.
Ali Bahrami, who oversees safety at the agency, came under repeated criticism in the report for what the committee called his lack of awareness of issues surrounding the Max and the accidents.
Others, like Shimano and Yamaha, just list a max torque, which is what the bike puts out in the highest assist setting.
For even more capacity, an extended Max body style is nine inches longer.
We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.
Picasso and Guillaume can laugh through an entire night of suggestions, inventions, songs, games that Max plays with his face.
“Max in particular has been very smart about staying current and remaining a student of the craft,” Borchetta says.
“Max, [my] agent, make me rich,” she says, the crowd roaring.
Salmond had initially asked for a package of additional powers, known as “Devo max” to be included on the ballot paper.
A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.
They sniffed once at the bar, but followed their stubbled chins into the back room at max acc.
Then Max Bray lit a cigar, and sat thinking over the events of the past few days, and of what he had done.
Max Bray arranged all future matters to his entire satisfaction, but again there were contingencies that he could not foresee.
There were three other passengers in the train this time; but a movement upon the part of Max Bray now troubled her.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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