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Pinnacle vs Acme - What's the difference?

pinnacle | acme |

Acme is a synonym of pinnacle.



As nouns the difference between pinnacle and acme

is that pinnacle is the highest point while acme is the top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.

As a verb pinnacle

is to put something on a pinnacle.

As a proper noun ACME is

a generic large company or corporation.

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.

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    * 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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    acme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
  • * (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
    • The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
  • * (rfdate),
    • The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
  • (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
  • Mature age; full bloom of life.
    • (Ben Jonson)

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