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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ultimate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
made the ultimate sacrifice
▪ Captain Oates made the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
sb’s ultimate fate (=what finally happens to someone)
▪ The ultimate fate of the refugees is in our hands.
sb’s ultimate goal (=what they eventually and most importantly hope to achieve)
▪ The ultimate goal is a freer, more democratic society.
the final/ultimate outcome
▪ The final outcome of the investigation is still to be announced.
▪ The ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
the final/ultimate/crowning etc indignity
the ultimate luxury (=something you consider a very great luxury)
▪ A hot tub in your own back yard is the ultimate luxury.
the ultimate nightmare (=the worst possible situation)
▪ The ultimate nightmare for any parent is to suffer the loss of a child.
the ultimate/eventual/long-term aim (=that you hope to achieve in the end)
▪ The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline with non-polluting energy sources.
ultimate fighting
ultimate responsibility (=responsibility for making a final decision)
▪ The National Assembly will have ultimate responsibility for ensuring that health targets are met.
ultimate/highest/supreme etc accolade
▪ She received a Grammy Award, the highest accolade in the music business.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
accolade
▪ He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.
aim
▪ He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director.
▪ The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline altogether by using battery power or other non-polluting energy sources.
▪ The ultimate aim of the counselling process is to achieve significant improvement in the social and interpersonal relationships of the counsellee.
▪ The ultimate aim is to set up a centre every 50 kilometres.
▪ But better patient care is the ultimate aim.
▪ Great strides had been made, but the elimination of poverty, Johnson's ultimate aim, was far from complete.
▪ Her ultimate aim is television stardom.
▪ The ultimate aim of interviewers is to produce a well-completed schedule for every interview assigned to them.
authority
▪ There are some who argue that sovereignty or ultimate authority can be sliced up and shared around.
▪ But analytically, a political system could exist at any level, even one that does not have ultimate authority.
▪ Local defiance of central government policies and rejection of its ultimate authority overturned traditional conventions of central-local relations.
▪ President Nelson Mandela reportedly has ultimate authority over the remaining operational and research details of the program.
▪ In this case the identity of the ultimate authority remains assured.
▪ The very fact of multiple claims to ultimate authority has had the effect of undermining all of them.
▪ I am sure that the Minister will not be the ultimate authority on these matters.
▪ There is, in short, a conjunction of ultimate authority with ultimate responsibility.
control
▪ And so, too, does the ultimate control.
▪ In such ways the party retains ultimate control over appointments, transfers, promotions and discipline.
▪ But even there it is hard to be sure that there was no ultimate control from the temples.
▪ She had insisted on retaining ultimate control.
▪ A neutral presentation would expose the difference and show that the delegation of authority does not imply the forfeiture of ultimate control.
decision
▪ Alice looked at Kiki, Kiki at Alice, the ultimate decision blooming at long last.
▪ Mr. Patten I can confirm that the ultimate decision is ministerial.
▪ More applications will consequently get through to the ultimate decision makers.
▪ The ultimate decisions will be taken at governmental, even presidential, level.
▪ The ultimate decision concerning who to hire is made by consensus.
▪ The ultimate decision must be made by the Chief Constable himself.
▪ Although a bare majority in his cabinet seemed likely to back him, its ultimate decision could not be predicted early Wednesday.
destination
▪ All invoices also state the consignment's ultimate destination.
▪ One-way streets are utilized to move autos more smoothly and rapidly through the neighborhoods to their ultimate destination.
▪ Neither does it deny the ageing process, or the ultimate destination of life itself.
▪ Finally, he swims and runs to his ultimate destination.
▪ The cargo's ultimate destination had been printed neatly in black pen in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.
▪ The socialist road had to be adhered to, even though that itself was changing with the ultimate destination now uncertain.
▪ On the far side of the stream another valley led on up into the mountains toward Cobak, his ultimate destination.
expression
▪ Virtual reality is perhaps the ultimate expression of our human involvement in multimedia information.
▪ It was the ultimate expression of the rational, mechanical approach to giant company administration....
▪ Funakoshi regarded kata as the ultimate expression of his art.
fate
▪ This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars.
▪ The ultimate fate of most of this collision debris is to collide again with the satellite from which it was originally ejected.
▪ The ultimate fate of the Mohawks is even sadder.
▪ Its ultimate fate is unknown, although the speed suggests that it was traveling too slowly to escape from Earth.
▪ Still, their ultimate fate is revealing.
goal
▪ Thus, while each has the same ultimate goal, each chooses a different methodology to achieve it.
▪ Relief from physical distress is the first priority, but it is not the ultimate goal.
▪ One trains in the arts of war, yet the ultimate goal is peace.
▪ While never forgetting that ultimate goal, he constantly shifted tactics to suit changing circumstances.
▪ Making decisions Helping the counsellee to make decisions is the ultimate goal of the counselling process.
▪ In his inaugural address, Carter said his ultimate goal was the elimination of nuclear weapons from the earth.
▪ Elan refuses to say what its ultimate goal is in suing Mayo.
▪ Are we playing well enough to get to the ultimate goal?
objective
▪ It is this personhood which is the Monster's ultimate objective.
▪ There was one significant qualification; emancipation was the ultimate objective.
▪ My ultimate objective is complete debt cancellation.
▪ The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.
▪ Then they should establish sets of year-by-year targets, the achievement of which will carry them forward towards their ultimate objectives.
outcome
▪ If there is any doubt about the ultimate outcome, the proceeding must be left on foot.
▪ The continuing, and heated, judicial debate on racial preference indicates that the ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
▪ The tensions can't be avoided and the ultimate outcome can't be predicted.
▪ Work is designed so that it can best be completed by a group, with a group project being the ultimate outcome.
▪ The process of implementation had a large role in determining the ultimate outcomes.
power
▪ A majority in either House has the ultimate power to dominate proceedings.
▪ Shamanism is based on the premise that neither 227 human beings nor nature itself hold the ultimate power in the universe.
▪ He had the ultimate power to approve the appointment of generals, admirals and prime ministers.
▪ The ultimate power is a divine one.
▪ In order for there to be a democracy there must be a clearly defined source of ultimate power.
▪ As their grievances were not met, or even acknowledged by the ultimate power in the state -; the Tsar.
▪ It is the best and only basis for strengthening cooperation between the Twelve, while leaving ultimate power with national governments.
purpose
▪ What is important to emphasise is that war is the ultimate purpose for which Soviet society is organised.
▪ And, indeed, our ultimate purpose is to see the opportunities that emerge as this myth is dispelled.
▪ However, often an inflexible approach evolves and the ultimate purpose of the project is lost in paperwork.
▪ My ultimate purpose, here as elsewhere in this book, is to examine the feasibility of making space enterprises self-sufficient.
question
▪ But Stern has remained far clear of ever putting the ultimate question.
▪ The ultimate question, however, was what would happen to the steadily accumulating stockpiles of nuclear waste in the long term.
▪ But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
▪ The ultimate question for the court is whether the absence of the covenant changes the contract in character from the original.
reality
▪ For Marx the material world is the ultimate reality.
▪ Such an analogy suggests that the ultimate reality is an impersonal entity rather than a personal being.
▪ He recognizes that every religion has within its depth a clue to the meaning of ultimate reality.
▪ Above all, it imposed norms of order and limitation to conceal the Dionysiac revelation of contradiction and excess as ultimate realities.
▪ An exquisite unreality catches the earth, or perhaps it is the ultimate reality.
▪ Was matter, or reason, the ultimate reality?
▪ My rejection of death was less a denial than a postponement of the recognition of its ultimate reality.
▪ The question arises as to what he was describing - ultimate reality or the life of men?
responsibility
▪ I accept that the Secretary of State will have the ultimate responsibility because he will have to approve each sale.
▪ They may manipulate and grow rich off the rezonings, but the ultimate responsibility is ours.
▪ Conflicting official versions of the circumstances of the assassination fed doubts as to where ultimate responsibility lay.
▪ Teaching values to the young is always a tough job, and the ultimate responsibility falls on parents.
▪ However, it is the housewife's ultimate responsibility to see that all tasks get done properly.
▪ The ultimate responsibility for determining rewards falls back on those who receive them.
▪ There is, in short, a conjunction of ultimate authority with ultimate responsibility.
▪ It is parents who have the ultimate responsibility for making the education process work for their children.
sacrifice
▪ In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice.
▪ The ultimate sacrifice and the 100-meter backstroke.
▪ Also there, Captain Oates, the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
▪ This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony, but all the bees in the colony are genetically related.
sanction
▪ Examples of the use of this ultimate sanction are few.
▪ The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame.
▪ Only if its many controls fail will the ultimate sanction, i.e. revocation of the disposal licence, be invoked.
▪ War as the ultimate sanction was not a credible solution.
▪ The ultimate sanction is financial: an additional award of compensation.
source
▪ Authority, like power, has an ultimate source.
▪ Such an approach, though useful, is limited: it fails to recognize the ultimate source of the violence.
▪ As to the ultimate source of the fields, he is open to three propositions, each of them metaphysically grounded. 1.
▪ The dust therefore cuts off the ultimate source of the disturbance that raises more dust.
▪ The ultimate source, therefore, of the theories must lie in experiments and the need to interpret such experiments.
▪ Such massifs are the ultimate source of sandstones in the United Kingdom.
▪ In fact, the ultimate source of value in literature as in society was moral authority.
success
▪ The ultimate success of the Programme will depend on the widespread knowledge and understanding of the Council's procedures and philosophy.
▪ Finding the right message for Clinton was an essential element in his ultimate success.
▪ The ultimate success rate and rebleeding rate of these two endoscopists were comparable.
▪ Gore's people remain, for the record, very confident of their ultimate success.
test
▪ The ultimate test for a barrier, of course, is to get a local cyclist to try it out.
▪ This legacy has endured because the ultimate test in government is not performance, but reelection.
▪ I think that's the ultimate test of reflexes, and will.
▪ Love is the ultimate test of a good mentor.
▪ Of all the skills, riding was the ultimate test and the one the team viewed with the least enthusiasm.
▪ Democracy is going to meet its ultimate test when it has to confront the economic demands of the elderly.
truth
▪ Such vivid, metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world.
▪ Thus, for Melville, we see that the sea is symbolic of all ultimate truths of the world.
weapon
▪ Those who shared his belief in the ultimate weapon, Pentagon chiefs and Congressional hawks, put pressure on the President.
▪ The violence is only the exercise of an ultimate weapon available to men.
▪ The army, the Tsar's ultimate weapon, was commanded by noblemen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice
▪ Also there, Captain Oates, the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues.
▪ He evidently thought his life was so valuable that some one would surely save it even at the cost of the supreme sacrifice.
▪ In that sense I suppose I am making the ultimate sacrifice.
▪ These were people who showed courage, faith, and were an example to all by making the supreme sacrifice.
▪ This might appear to be the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the colony, but all the bees in the colony are genetically related.
▪ We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.
▪ You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night, so don't be shy about admitting it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ultimate responsibility lies with the President.
▪ For many people, the Rolling Stones will always be the world's ultimate rock and roll band.
▪ Monroe was the ultimate Hollywood movie star.
▪ Our first class passengers enjoy the ultimate in luxury and service.
▪ The ultimate goal of the military was to restore the democratic government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At no time can I remember ever being stopped from pursuing an objective which was of ultimate potential gain to the company.
▪ Even when their offences are of the ultimate gravity, some people are getting off far too lightly.
▪ Examples of the use of this ultimate sanction are few.
▪ Its precise origins remain obscure; its ultimate impact on society is necessarily still a matter of conjecture.
▪ Television is the ultimate fun-house mirror.
▪ The ultimate determinants of real investment, whether by foreign or domestic firms, remain a contentious issue in economic theory.
▪ The superb school is superb only by virtue of its success in developing its ultimate customer: the pupil.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ultimate

Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]

  1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

    My harbor, and my ultimate repose.
    --Milton.

    Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.
    --Addison.

  2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.

    Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.
    --Coleridge.

  3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter.

    Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic.

    Ultimate belief. See under Belief.

    Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.

    Syn: Final; conclusive. See Final.

Ultimate

Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.]

  1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]

  2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]

Ultimate

Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. Analyses. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See Loose.]

  1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

  2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either

    1. what elements it contains, or

    2. how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

  3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

  4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

    1. A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

    2. A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

  6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

    Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ultimate

1650s, from Late Latin ultimatus, past participle of ultimare "to be final, come to an end," from Latin ultimus (fem. ultima) "last, final, farthest, most distant, extreme," superlative of *ulter "beyond" (see ultra-). As a noun from 1680s. Ultimate Frisbee is attested by 1972.

Wiktionary
ultimate

a. final; last in a series. n. 1 The most basic or fundamental of a set of things 2 The final or most distant point; the conclusion 3 The greatest extremity; the maximum 4 (context uncountable English) The sport of ultimate frisbee.

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WordNet
ultimate

  1. adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life" [ant: proximate]

  2. being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"

  3. being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple" [syn: elemental]

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Wikipedia
Ultimate

Ultimate or Ultimates may refer to:

Ultimate (Jolin Tsai album)

Ultimate is the seventh greatest hits album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai , released on September 7, 2012 by Sony Music Taiwan. The compilation contains a collection of songs and music videos released by Universal or Sony between 1999 and 2006.

Ultimate (sport)

Ultimate, originally known as ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport originally played by players with a flying disc (frisbee). Points are scored by passing the disc to a teammate in the opposing end zone. Other basic rules are that players must not take steps while holding the disc, and interceptions, incomplete passes, and passes out of bounds are turnovers. Rain, wind, or occasionally other adversities can make for a testing match with rapid turnovers, heightening the pressure of play.

From its beginnings in the American counterculture of the late 1960s, ultimate has resisted empowering any referee with rule enforcement, instead relying on the sportsmanship of players and invoking the "spirit of the game" to maintain fair play. Players call their own fouls, and dispute a foul only when they genuinely believe it did not occur. Playing without referees is the norm for league play, but has been supplanted in club competition by the use of "observers"/"advisers" to help in disputes, and the professional leagues employ empowered referees.

In 2012 there were 5.1 million ultimate players in the United States. Ultimate is played across the world in pickup games and by recreational, school, club, professional, and national teams at various age levels and with open, women's, and mixed divisions. The most recent World Ultimate Club Championship was in Lecco, Italy in July 2014 where US teams won Gold in all three divisions. The 2016 WFDF World Ultimate & Guts Championships was held in London in 2016, where US teams in finished first in every division.

Ultimate (Boney M. album)

Ultimate is a compilation album of recordings by Boney M. released by BMG-Ariola France. Early 1999 saw the release of "Ma Baker - Somebody Scream" which was a collaboration with Horny United and German band Sash! which peaked at #22 in the UK and was also a Top 30 hit in Germany. In France the single was followed up by compilation Ultimate which in addition to the new remix contained edited versions of the band's hits previously issued on The Magic Of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits and Fantastic Boney M., an extended version of single "Kalimba De Luna" from Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs and two tracks from 1993's More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II.

Ultimate (Pet Shop Boys album)

Ultimate is a greatest hits compilation album by UK electronic music band Pet Shop Boys. It is their third greatest hits album, released on 1 November 2010 by their long-time label Parlophone. The album contains 18 previously released singles, in chronological order, and one new song (" Together"). Ultimate was released to celebrate 25 years since the band's first single release " West End Girls" in standard single-CD and expanded CD/DVD configurations. It charted at number 27 on the UK Albums Chart on 7 November 2010, with first-week sales of 8,886 copies. On the European Top 100 Albums it reached number 50 on 20 November 2010.

The single " Together", containing two cover tracks and an extended version of the song was released on 24 October 2010 digitally and on 29 November physically.

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Usage examples of "ultimate".

He would only feel safe if he commanded ultimate power over all of Achar, if he sat the throne itself.

His real mission, of course, is to convince some other band, somewhere else, that he is a genius acoustician who has developed the ultimate amplifier and that Doggone amps are the only amps that any hip band can possibly consider.

In determining these mixed questions of law and fact, the Court confines itself to the ultimate question as to whether the Commission acted within its power.

The result of admitting George, aside from a few hours distraction, thus might be only his death, with an ultimate effect of removing the joy from Joy Hall.

Making the trip down ten flights would be the ultimate way to flip off her agoraphobia, a fitting cap to her week of desensitization and self-improvement.

Lonely Hearts Club Band, they went for the ultimate reduction: The Beatles, an album title that, oddly enough, they had not used before.

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

But long before the codebreakers moved into the sterile supercomputer laboratories, clean rooms, and anechoic chambers, their hunt for the solution to that ultimate puzzle took them to dark lakebeds and through muddy swamps in the early light of the new Cold War.

Military monstrosities analogous to anencephalic and three legged children are born and nursed toward ultimate impotence.

Hence, while he has endeavored truly to depict--or to let those who made history at the time help him to depict--the enormity of the offence of the armed Rebellion and of the heresies and plottings of certain Southern leaders precipitating it, yet not one word will be found, herein, condemnatory of those who, with manly candor, soldierly courage, and true patriotism, acknowledged that error when the ultimate arbitrament of the sword had decided against them.

As you know, we have begun our process of eliminating dogs, but as the eradication of all pets is our ultimate goal and part of our ongoing effort to bring Corban into the Bonita Vista family, it has been suggested that we begin killing cats.

We should require that our ultimate theory give a cogent cosmology within our universe.

And here, at last, he was at peace, or would have been but for the thought of this woman - this Marquise de Chantenac - who had gone to such lengths in her endeavours to soften his exile that her ultimate object could never have been in doubt to a coxcomb, though it was in some doubt to Antonio Perez, who had been cured for all time of Coxcombry by suffering and misfortune, to say nothing of increasing age.

By the end of the second week after the yacht had sailed, Ett and Rico put themselves in the hands of Cye Morecki, a MOGOW who had been brought to the island in great secrecy a few days earlier with the ultimate purpose of working on Wally.

Chinese manpower as the ultimate land force in defeating the Japanese on the continent of Asia.