pinnacle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The highest point.
  2. A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
    — Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
  3. An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success. figuratively
    — The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
  4. An upright member, 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.
    — Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.
动词 v.
  1. To place on a pinnacle. transitive
    — And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.
  2. To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. transitive
    — The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross

词形变化

pinnacles plural pinnacles present,singular,third-person pinnacling participle,present pinnacled participle,past pinnacled past

词汇关系

衍生词
Pinnacle Swamp The Pinnacles

词源

词源 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnāculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
词源 2
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnāculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
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