(n.) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
(n.) Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(2) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
(3) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(4) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(5) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
(6) Despite a dreadful end to last season, culminating in a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, FSG are pressing ahead with transfer plans agreed with Rodgers, indicating the manager’s position is safe at the moment.
(7) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(8) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
(9) Significant numbers of PFC were encountered in the spleen as early as 14 to 18 hours after a single intravenous injection of antigen; after 36 hours the number of PFC rose rapidly and culminated in a maximum population at 5 days, followed by a rapid decline and plateau similar to that for circulating antibody.
(10) Richard Betts, a climate expert at the Meteorological Office and one of about 130 senior authors of Friday's report, said: "This is the culmination of three years' work.
(11) It will feature in meetings of the G8 group of industrialised countries, and the Tokyo international conference on African development, culminating in the Brussels meeting on the new deal for fragile states.
(12) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(13) This diplomatic battle culminated last year in the signing of a peace agreement between the rebels and the government which imposed an immediate ceasefire, and was supposed to lead to a government of national unity with Machar once again in the vice-president’s office.
(14) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
(15) The Hanover action was, she says, the culmination of years of protests and training, the result of tactics that have evolved from action to action.
(16) But relations have steadily improved, as did the Vatican’s influence, culminating in last December’s deal with the US.
(17) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(18) Enzyme activity in developing spore cells increased 10-fold during differentiation from myxamoebae (0 h) to the culmination stage (20 h) and decreased slightly at sorocarp (24 h).
(19) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(20) We propose a model whereby a protein repressor, under the control of PKA, inhibits precocious induction of stalk cell differentiation by DIF and so regulates the choice between slug migration and culmination.
Denouement
Definition:
(n.) The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
(n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some expected a grand finale, a denouement in which the problems raised by the ruling of the European court of justice against Google on the so-called “right to be forgotten” would be resolved.
(2) That Norwich now sit 14th in the Premier League, four points clear of the bottom three, underlines the difference that one good result can make as the season's denouement draws close.
(3) At the episode’s denouement, Pat discovers Katie’s doll behind a box of chocolates – it was there the whole time!
(4) A Brazilian World Cup that started amid fears over protests and corruption but became a paean to the best of international football concluded with a tense final and a dramatic denouement.
(5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
(6) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
(7) Diamé’s wonderful effort that curled into the top corner came after concerted pressure throughout this dramatic denouement to the Championship season.
(8) When Zidane retired from playing after leading France to the World Cup final in 2006 – player of the tournament in Germany despite his infamous denouement – the midfielder did not intend to move into coaching.
(9) The final denouement has just played out in the French Parliament with an announcement last week which makes specific reference to resistance in the South that all existing shale gas permits and authorisations have been annulled.
(10) In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the tragic denouement can be attributed directly to the consequences of the Great Plague.
(11) An amnesty, which does not have the support of the State Department, would represent a surprising denouement to an international drama that has lasted half a year .
(12) West Ham’s signing of the season provided the dramatic denouement.
(13) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
(14) The first is Cyprus, where long-running, UN-brokered talks on reunification are inching towards some sort of denouement.
(15) People are quick to write off women’s sprinters but we have shown that we can peak on this stage and in front of a strong field.” There was a dramatic denouement, too, in the long jump, where England’s prospects had suffered the worst possible start.
(16) With over 400 invited race veterans in attendance for Sunday's denouement, there was one conspicuous absentee.
(17) Middlesbrough promoted to the Premier League: five things they must do now Read more That sending off left Chris Hughton’s side – who despite finishing level on points with Boro have a marginally inferior goal difference and must now face the dreaded play-off lottery – with nothing to lose and their desperate attacking urgency made for a tense denouement.
(18) And it reaches its usually unseen, often fatal denouement in the waters off northern Libya, as a growing number of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants desperately bids to reach Italy and Greece by sea.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was hard to see Laura cry’, says her mother – video Bassett and the rest of Sampson’s squad must travel back to London via Saturday’s third place playoff against Germany, while Japan will face USA in the following day’s denouement.
(20) "Tinker Tailor rubbish, all moody non-dialogue and twisty plot that you desperately follow and then the denouement is cos the baddies are idiots and say something stupid - what's the point of the clever twisty plot when the goodies don't have to unravel it?"