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Pinnacle vs Tentacle - What's the difference?

pinnacle | tentacle |

As nouns the difference between pinnacle and tentacle

is that pinnacle is the highest point while tentacle is an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

As a verb pinnacle

is to put something on a pinnacle.

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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    tentacle

    English

    (wikipedia tentacle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  • * 1873, , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    • With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle , that slid wriggling down the ladder.
  • * 1897,
    • The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles , immediately under the mouth.
  • * 1936,
    • Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles .

    Derived terms

    * tentacular