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Height vs Pinnacle - What's the difference?

height | pinnacle |

As nouns the difference between height and pinnacle

is that height is the distance from the base of something to the top while pinnacle is the highest point.

As a verb pinnacle is

to put something on a pinnacle.

height

English

Alternative forms

* highth * heighth

Noun

  • The distance from the base of something to the top.
  • * Robert Frost
  • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
  • The highest point or maximum degree.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn
  • , work=BBC Sport citation , passage=If City never quite reached the heights of their 6-1 demolition of United, then Roberto Mancini's side should still have had this game safe long before Johnson restored their two-goal advantage.}}
  • (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
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    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * depth

    pinnacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The highest point.
  • A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
  • (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
  • (architecture) 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.
  • * Milton
  • Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * nadir

    See also

    * acme * apex * peak * summit

    Verb

    (pinnacl)
  • to put something on a pinnacle
  • to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles
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