different between pinnacle vs vertices

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), double diminutive of Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n?k?l/

Noun

pinnacle (plural pinnacles)

1. The highest point.

   Synonyms: acme, peak, summit

   Antonym: nadir

2. (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.

   Coordinate term: sea stack

3. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:apex
4. (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.

Translations

Verb

pinnacle (third-person singular simple present pinnacles, present participle pinnacling, simple past and past participle pinnacled)

1. (transitive) To place on a pinnacle.
2. (transitive) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
   • 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington

     The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross

Translations

Further reading

• pinnacle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pinnacle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pannicle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?t?si?s/

Noun

vertices

1. plural of vertex

Latin

Noun

vertic?s

1. nominative plural of vertex
2. accusative plural of vertex
3. vocative plural of vertex