Pinnacle
['pɪnək(ə)l] or ['pɪnəkl]
Definition
(noun.) (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower.
(noun.) a lofty peak.
(verb.) raise on or as if on a pinnacle; 'He did not want to be pinnacled'.
(verb.) surmount with a pinnacle; 'pinnacle a pediment'.
Typed by Bush--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
(n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
(v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Turret, minaret.[2]. Top, summit, apex, acme, zenith, highest point, culminating point, utmost height.
Editor: Sasha
Definition
n. a slender turret: a high point like a spire: the highest point of a mountain &c.—v.t. to build with pinnacles: to place on a pinnacle.
Inputed by Barbara
Examples
- Up, up he went to the waving pinnacle of a lofty monarch of the forest where his heavy pursuer dared not follow him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You give me joy in telling me that you are 'on the pinnacle of _content_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How could she have pretended love, and raised him to such a pinnacle of hope only to cast him down to such utter depths of despair! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This news precipitated me from my self-raised pinnacle of honour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- That's what puts him on a pinnacle in the records of crime. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from the very pinnacle of thine own castle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In an instant Holmes had raced up on to the ridge, and, standing upon a lofty pinnacle, craned his neck in every direction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the topmost pinnacle of Gibraltar we halted a good while, and no doubt the mules were tired. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I know a secret entrance to the palace through the pinnacle of the highest tower. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on the right. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Will