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summat | summit |

As a pronoun summat

is something.

As an adverb summat

is somewhat, to a limited extent or degree.

As a noun summit is

a peak; the top of a mountain.

As a verb summit is

to reach the summit of a mountain.

summat

English

Alternative forms

* sommat * sumet (17th century ) * summut, zum'ot, summot (18th – 19th centuries ) * sumat, summet, zumat, zummat, zummet, zummut (19th century )

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • (British, regional) Something.
  • * 1809 , Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine , volume 34, no. 202, page 185
  • *:...every gentleman tips us summat , we looks for it as natural as possible.
  • *1825 October 12, (Walter Scott), Letters (published 1935), IX.245
  • *:They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable.
  • :1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.i.10
  • ::A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things.
  • * 1947 , Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton , page 53
    • Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat ?
  • :1997 , , (w, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) , iv:
  • ::‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
  • * 2006 , Robin Jarvis, Thomas , page 20
    • Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (British, regional) Somewhat, to a limited extent or degree
  • *1859 , (George Eliot), (Adam Bede) , I.i.viii.172
  • *:It's summat -like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!
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    summit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
    • In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mt. Shasta.
  • (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
    • They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

    Usage notes

    Colloquially summit' is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a '''summit , such as the South Summit of (Mount Everest). These are distinguished by (topographic prominence) as ''subsummits'' (low prominence) or ''independent summits (high prominence).

    Synonyms

    * acme, apex, peak, zenith

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Verb

  • (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
  • * 2012 , Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic , vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:
    • Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited .

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