Pinnacle vs. Zenith

Pinnaclenoun

The highest point.

Pinnaclenoun

A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.

Pinnaclenoun

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

Pinnaclenoun

(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.

Pinnacleverb

To put something on a pinnacle.

Pinnacleverb

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Pinnaclenoun

An architectural member, upright, and 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, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.

Pinnaclenoun

Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.

Pinnacleverb

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Pinnaclenoun

(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower

Pinnaclenoun

the highest level or degree attainable;

Pinnaclenoun

a lofty peak

Pinnacleverb

surmount with a pinnacle;

Pinnacleverb

raise on or as if on a pinnacle;

Pinnaclenoun

the most successful point; the culmination

Pinnaclenoun

a high, pointed piece of rock.

Pinnaclenoun

a small pointed turret built as an ornament on a roof.

Pinnacleverb

form the culminating point or example of.

Pinnacleverb

set on or as if on a pinnacle.

Pinnacle

A pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire.

Zenithnoun

(astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.

Zenithnoun

(astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.

Zenithnoun

(by extension) Highest point or state; peak.

Zenithnoun

That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; - opposed to nadir.

Zenithnoun

hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.

Zenithnoun

the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Zenithnoun

the time at which something is most powerful or successful

Zenithnoun

the point in the sky or celestial sphere directly above an observer.

Zenithnoun

the highest point reached by a given celestial object

Zenith

The zenith is an imaginary point directly a particular location, on the imaginary celestial sphere. means in the vertical direction (plumb line) opposite to the gravity direction at that location (nadir).