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SUMMIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A meeting of heads of governments
Synonyms:
summit; summit meeting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):
group meeting; meeting (a formally arranged gathering)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
Example:
the region is a few molecules wide at the summit
Synonyms:
crest; crown; peak; summit; tip; top
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summit"):
brow; hilltop (the peak of a hill)
pinnacle (a lofty peak)
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Derivation:
summit (reach the summit (of a mountain))
Sense 3
Meaning:
The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
Example:
at the top of his profession
Synonyms:
acme; elevation; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; superlative; tiptop; top
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("summit" is a kind of...):
degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reach the summit (of a mountain)
Example:
Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
Synonyms:
breast; summit
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "summit" is one way to...):
arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach (reach a destination, either real or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
summit (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill))
Context examples:
Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Until the latest spectacular eruption opened up fissures on the flank of the volcano, Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii held a vast lava lake in its summit crater.
(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The scientists based their findings on observations by the Subaru Telescope, atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)
When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a 400-foot (120-meter) summit nestled between two older islands – visible to satellites in space.
(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)
On the summit of the East Cliff the new searchlight was ready for experiment, but had not yet been tried.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A band of muscular fibers of the oblique arytenoid muscle that extends from the summit of the arytenoid cartilage to the side of the epiglottis and whose action constricts the laryngeal aperture.
(Aryepiglottic Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)
Delighted with her progress, and fearful of wearying her with too much wisdom at once, Henry suffered the subject to decline, and by an easy transition from a piece of rocky fragment and the withered oak which he had placed near its summit, to oaks in general, to forests, the enclosure of them, waste lands, crown lands and government, he shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
When Julia looked back, it was with a countenance of delight, and whenever she spoke to them, it was in the highest spirits: her view of the country was charming, she wished they could all see it, etc.; but her only offer of exchange was addressed to Miss Crawford, as they gained the summit of a long hill, and was not more inviting than this: Here is a fine burst of country.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Lunch succeeded to our sight-seeing, and the short winter day wore away so fast, that it was dusk when the stage-coach stopped with us at an old brick house at Highgate on the summit of the hill.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I tell you, Watson, in all seriousness, that if I could beat that man, if I could free society of him, I should feel that my own career had reached its summit, and I should be prepared to turn to some more placid line in life.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
