summit

4 definitions found

summit - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Summit \Sum"mit\, n. [F. sommet, dim. of OF. som, sum, top, from
     L. summum, from summus highest. See Sum, n.]
     1. The top; the highest point.
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              Fixed on the summit of the highest mount. --Shak.
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     2. The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as,
        the summit of human fame.
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     3. (Zool.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the
        part in which the hinge is situated.
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     Summit level, the highest level of a canal, a railroad, or
        the like, in surmounting an ascent.
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summit - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  summit
      n 1: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage
           of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of
           beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the
           height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer
           was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle
           of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest
           superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his
           profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak,
           pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop,
           top]
      2: the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or
         hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they
         clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few
         molecules wide at the summit" [syn: peak, crown, crest,
         top, tip, summit]
      3: a meeting of heads of governments [syn: summit, summit   meeting
         ]
      v 1: reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the
           mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all
           summit" [syn: summit, breast]

summit - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Summit, AR (city, FIPS 67940)
    Location: 36.25014 N, 92.68743 W
    Population (1990): 480 (235 housing units)
    Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Summit, IL (village, FIPS 73638)
    Location: 41.78477 N, 87.81620 W
    Population (1990): 9971 (3514 housing units)
    Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
  Summit, MS (town, FIPS 71480)
    Location: 31.28466 N, 90.46615 W
    Population (1990): 1566 (661 housing units)
    Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 39666
  Summit, NJ (city, FIPS 71430)
    Location: 40.71493 N, 74.36540 W
    Population (1990): 19757 (8003 housing units)
    Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 07901
  Summit, NY
    Zip code(s): 12175
  Summit, OK (town, FIPS 71450)
    Location: 35.66890 N, 95.42235 W
    Population (1990): 170 (66 housing units)
    Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Summit, SC (town, FIPS 70315)
    Location: 33.92433 N, 81.42326 W
    Population (1990): 242 (86 housing units)
    Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Summit, SD (town, FIPS 62220)
    Location: 45.30378 N, 97.03675 W
    Population (1990): 267 (138 housing units)
    Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 57266
  Summit, UT
    Zip code(s): 84772
  Summit, WA (CDP, FIPS 68365)
    Location: 47.17213 N, 122.35800 W
    Population (1990): 6312 (2359 housing units)
    Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

summit - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "summit":
     acme, acme of perfection, all, apex, apogee, audience, bargaining,
     bargaining session, brow, cap, capstone, ceiling, climax,
     cloud nine, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference,
     confrontation, congress, consultation, consummation, convention,
     council, council fire, council of war, crest, crown, culmen,
     culmination, discussion, edge, end, exchange of views, extreme,
     extreme limit, extremity, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, heaven,
     heavens, height, high noon, high-level talk, highest degree,
     highest pitch, highest point, hilltop, huddle,
     interchange of views, interview, knoll, last word, limit,
     lofty peak, maximum, meeting, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra,
     negotiations, news conference, no place higher, noon, nth degree,
     palaver, parley, peak, perfection, pic, pico, pike, pink,
     pink of perfection, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, pourparler,
     powwow, precipice, press conference, ridge, roof, seance, session,
     seventh heaven, sitting, sky, spire, spur, summit conference,
     summitry, the whole, tip, tip-top, top, tor, ultimate, upmost,
     upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost,
     vertex, very top, zenith