What is the difference between peak and pinnacle?
peak | pinnacle | Synonyms |
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
* 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
(geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
(nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
(nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
(mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
* Holland
To become sick or wan.
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
* Shakespeare
To pry; to peep slyly.
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
to put something on a pinnacle
to build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles
Pinnacle is a synonym of peak.
As nouns the difference between peak and pinnacle
is that peak is a point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap while pinnacle is the highest point.As verbs the difference between peak and pinnacle
is that peak is to reach a highest degree or maximum while pinnacle is to put something on a pinnacle.peak
English
(wikipedia peak)Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.
- By last year, family income was 8 percent lower than it had been 11 years earlier, at its peak in 2000, according to inflation-adjusted numbers from the Census Bureau.
Synonyms
* apex, pinnacle, top, summit * See alsoDerived terms
* peakless * peaklike * peakwiseVerb
(en verb)- Historians argue about when the Roman Empire began to peak and ultimately decay.
- There peaketh up a mighty high mount.
Synonyms
* culminateDerived terms
* off-peakEtymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- Dwindle, peak , and pine.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
pinnacle
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Noun
(en noun)- Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.