Толковый словарь английского языка - pinnacle
Pinnacle
pinnacle
I. noun Etymology: Middle English pinacle, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pinnaculum small wing, gable, from Latin pinna wing, battlement Date: 14th century an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress, a structure or formation suggesting a ~, the highest point of development or achievement ; acme , see: summit II. transitive verb (-cled; pinnacling) Date: 14th century to surmount with a ~, to raise or rear on a ~
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n. & v. --n. 1 the culmination or climax (of endeavour, success, etc.). 2 a natural peak. 3 a small ornamental turret usu. ending in a pyramid or cone, crowning a buttress, roof, etc. --v.tr. 1 set on or as if on a pinnacle. 2 form the pinnacle of. 3 provide with pinnacles. Etymology: ME pinacle f. OF pin(n)acle f. LL pinnaculum f. pinna wing, point (as PIN, -CULE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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