What's the difference between apogee and pinnacle?

Apogee


Definition:

  • (n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.
  • (n.) Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
  • (2) From a test flight perspective, I’m less focused on the apogee, although the outside world is focused on the apogee.
  • (3) All this reached its apogee in 1987, with the sleeve art for Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason .
  • (4) A well pad sits only a couple hundred feet from Apogee Stadium, home of the university’s Mean Green football team.
  • (5) Whitesides’ comments two weeks ago made it clear that thermal protection, and not the height – or apogee – reached by the craft, was his main concern.
  • (6) For Britons reared on the Churchillian narrative, for Americans who crossed the Atlantic to save Europe from Nazi barbarism, for Russians who see the defeat of Hitler as their finest moment, and most of all, for Jews to whom the Holocaust represents the apogee of evil, Ozols' position may seem perverse.
  • (7) It has been found that in the mature female carp in the pre-spawning period with the light periods being long (L:D = 16:8) the apogee for gonadotropin occurs 10 hr after the onset of the light period.
  • (8) Michael Jackson dead was the scoop of a lifetime for any media outlet, and the apogee of the four-year-old celebrity-obsessed site that boasts its snippets are "even more fascinating than the hype".
  • (9) Conservative ideas of fairness are sometimes cast as "fair dues"; the success of David Davis, son of a single parent raised on a council estate, is cited as its apogee.
  • (10) Onset of labor data revealed a diurnal distribution with an apogee at midnight to 2 AM and a nadir at 11 AM to noon.
  • (11) The apogee of this feeling came in the summer with the release of Burn (a track first written for the X Factor winner Leona Lewis).
  • (12) So it's probably worth noting at this stage that people have been declaring episodic storytelling, mixed voices and unreliable narrators as the apogee of innovation at least since Achaemenides told Aeneas about Polyphemus.
  • (13) There were two steroid peaks between the LH apogees.
  • (14) Built in the 1560, the gigantic mausoleum is an example of a great tomb-building tradition which reached its apogee 100 years later with the Taj Mahal.
  • (15) Immediate, transient pressor responses occurred in 94 per cent followed by a more gradual sustained change in blood pressure reaching an apogee in about 20 minutes.
  • (16) The choices thereafter are many – you are close to the ridge and the Spanish border – but that spring is the apogee of the walk.
  • (17) While the Disney film is set at the apogee of empire – "The year is 1910, it's the age of men" crowed David Tomlinson as Mr Banks – Travers's book is firmly located in the 1930s, Auden's "low, dishonest decade".
  • (18) The hourly means of ionized calcium and phosphorus demonstrate significant diurnal variation with a similar apogee, nadir, and periodicity (24 hours).
  • (19) Nobody wants, and, in particular, nobody wants to pay for, a restoration of the Swedish welfare state at its apogee.
  • (20) To a gathered crowd of onlookers, Otis ascended into the air on his platform, then, at the apogee, had an assistant cut the rope with a dagger.

Pinnacle


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
  • (v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pinnacle, one of the biggest MPPI providers, blames "wider global financial uncertainty".
  • (2) For actors of a certain masculine bent, James Bond has long been viewed as a career pinnacle.
  • (3) The prize for doing that, however, would be the pinnacle of a scientific career.
  • (4) The takeaway from this pinnacle study is that securing protected areas alone is not enough.
  • (5) Another said: "The problem with PMQs isn't so much that it's shouty but that the so-called pinnacle of political debate in this country is two men trading petty insults and making nasty jokes about the other while the rest of parliament boos and cheers behind them.
  • (6) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
  • (7) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
  • (8) The quarter-final appearances under Sven-Göran Eriksson in two previous World Cups and one European championship in Portugal will now be seen as the pinnacle of their collective achievement.
  • (9) Suzy Rojtman, of the French national collective for women’s rights, said: “If we have a lot of attackers from the top political class who can harass and assault people unpunished at the pinnacle of the system of political power, think about what others in society are getting away with.” French female journalists are fighting back against sexist politicians | Lénaïg Bredoux Read more Caroline De Haas, a high-profile feminist and former government adviser, said sexual harassment was not unique to France, but in French politics it was happening with a sense of impunity and “an absence of understanding of what violence is to women”.
  • (10) Our political class is indeed the pinnacle of smug regurgitation.
  • (11) Parbuckling is a common means of salvaging wrecked vessels, but it has never been used on one of the Concordia's size – the cruise ship is 290 metres (950ft) long – let alone one balancing precariously on two rock pinnacles on a steep slope.
  • (12) With relatively gentle trail gradients and relentless cliff-top views down to the eroded pinnacles of the lowlands, this is one of Africa's great trekking destinations.
  • (13) The Heron tower, which stands in Bishopsgate next to Liverpool Street station, has just opened, while several other towers are under development, including the Pinnacle, which is also in Bishopsgate.
  • (14) The model for this policy is the United States, which represents the pinnacle of private enterprise in the health field.
  • (15) The spacewalk is the pinnacle of any mission, and something that only a minority of astronauts get to do.
  • (16) Female chief executives like Ellen Pao may reach the pinnacle in business only to discover that they have risen to the top of a precarious “glass cliff”.
  • (17) Hodgson is the only man on the FA's shortlist – the body stressed that the meeting on Monday was less an "interview" and more "discussions" over the role – with the former Internazionale, Switzerland and Fulham manager having previously stressed that he perceives the job as "the pinnacle" of his career after previously missing out to Kevin Keegan in 1999 and Sven-Goran Eriksson two years later.
  • (18) Yet this headline – and the accompanying 6,000-word article attacking debt-fuelled growth – has sparked weeks of speculation over an alleged political feud at the pinnacle of Chinese politics between the president, Xi Jinping, and the prime minister, Li Keqiang, the supposed steward of the Chinese economy .
  • (19) Pinnacle says its policies offer "peace of mind and reassurance", and adds: "Customers can reduce the level of cover should they want."
  • (20) Pinnacles has one campsite on the east side of the park, which is more developed than the western entrance.