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Definition of acme in English: acmenoun ˈakmiˈækmi The point at which something is at its best or most highly developed. physics is the acme of scientific knowledge 物理学是科学知识的顶峰。 Example sentencesExamples - With 4500 seats, it represented the acme of movie-going, with double seats for courting couples, uniformed doormen and waitresses in two restaurants dressed as Dresden shepherdesses.
- It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.
- In his development of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a quarter-century of Warner Bros. cartoons, Chuck reached and raised the acme of comic animation.
- The teardrop shape shared by the stacks and the pitcher, the acme of streamlining in nature, is dramatized by the slender handle that extends from the mouth to the base in a single uninterrupted curve.
- To achieve these effects is undoubtedly the acme of military skill.
- The first efforts of the papacy to increase its power and restore its prestige coincided with the acme of the Patriarch in Constantinople around the eleventh century.
- He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
- He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock.
- Suddenly the already tragically passé dress that nobody bought because it was, is and ever shall be completely hideous, becomes the acme of desirability because it's got money off.
- His poetry is no more the acme of dialectical evolution than it is the culmination of the ‘decline’ perceived by Bloom.
- And until we do the same, we shall forever be trapped within the prison-house of our preferences, by our Darwinian sense that youth, vigour and health represent the prime of life and the acme of desirability.
- She is the acme of generosity, wanting to know if I've a sweetheart so she can give her some jewellery, and which Broadway show I'd like to see.
- McNab says the game has come to represent the acme of upmarket aspiration for the elite decision-makers of business, sports, finance, politics and showbiz.
- The MBA is the acme of middle class parental ambition and student dreams, but as a post-graduate qualification it is a peculiar case.
- Are neatly-kept lawns the acme of suburban aspiration?
- Britain, he declared, and British laws and achievements, were the acme of human civilization.
- Whether he has plummeted, reached the acme or is in a spiritual limbo is for him to decide.
- Within a few years, he established a reputation as a first class tailor, and at 17 he decided to leave for the United Kingdom in an audacious attempt to make a reputation on Saville Row, the international acme of sartorial elegance.
- Civil war, revolution, terrorism, and international war are widely condemned by many societies and glorified by others as the acme of patriotic fervor.
- Bright kids from the right side of the tracks go head to head with poorer ones and second-generation ethnic youngsters for whom the spelling bee represents the acme of their parents' study-hard work ethic.
Synonyms summit, top, crest, pinnacle, mountaintop, spire, heights, brow, apex, crown, tip, cap, vertex, zenith, apogee peak, pinnacle, zenith, highest point, high point, crown, crest, summit, top, tip, apex, apogee
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek akmē 'highest point'. Until the 18th century it was often consciously used as a Greek word and written in Greek letters. In Greek akmē meant ‘point’ or ‘pinnacle, highest point’. Its use in English dates from the late 15th century, although for the next hundred years or so it was consciously used as a Greek word and written in Greek letters. For many people their first exposure to the word comes from the ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoons featuring the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, where the characters buy products from the Acme company. ‘Acme’ was a real brand name for various US firms in the last two decades of the 19th century, chosen in part because the word comes near the top of any alphabetical list of suppliers. Acne (mid 19th century) the skin condition, has a similar root. The idea is that all those red pimples are little points sticking up from someone's face.
Definition of acme in US English: acmenounˈakmēˈækmi The point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful. 顶峰，顶端，极致 physics is the acme of scientific knowledge 物理学是科学知识的顶峰。 Example sentencesExamples - Are neatly-kept lawns the acme of suburban aspiration?
- And until we do the same, we shall forever be trapped within the prison-house of our preferences, by our Darwinian sense that youth, vigour and health represent the prime of life and the acme of desirability.
- The MBA is the acme of middle class parental ambition and student dreams, but as a post-graduate qualification it is a peculiar case.
- He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock.
- With 4500 seats, it represented the acme of movie-going, with double seats for courting couples, uniformed doormen and waitresses in two restaurants dressed as Dresden shepherdesses.
- He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
- His poetry is no more the acme of dialectical evolution than it is the culmination of the ‘decline’ perceived by Bloom.
- She is the acme of generosity, wanting to know if I've a sweetheart so she can give her some jewellery, and which Broadway show I'd like to see.
- The first efforts of the papacy to increase its power and restore its prestige coincided with the acme of the Patriarch in Constantinople around the eleventh century.
- Britain, he declared, and British laws and achievements, were the acme of human civilization.
- Whether he has plummeted, reached the acme or is in a spiritual limbo is for him to decide.
- It is the acme of romanticism; I devoted most of a year's worth of high school study halls to it, along with all of the volumes of Dumas's Three Musketeers series, which I inherited from my grandmother.
- In his development of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in a quarter-century of Warner Bros. cartoons, Chuck reached and raised the acme of comic animation.
- Civil war, revolution, terrorism, and international war are widely condemned by many societies and glorified by others as the acme of patriotic fervor.
- To achieve these effects is undoubtedly the acme of military skill.
- The teardrop shape shared by the stacks and the pitcher, the acme of streamlining in nature, is dramatized by the slender handle that extends from the mouth to the base in a single uninterrupted curve.
- Suddenly the already tragically passé dress that nobody bought because it was, is and ever shall be completely hideous, becomes the acme of desirability because it's got money off.
- McNab says the game has come to represent the acme of upmarket aspiration for the elite decision-makers of business, sports, finance, politics and showbiz.
- Bright kids from the right side of the tracks go head to head with poorer ones and second-generation ethnic youngsters for whom the spelling bee represents the acme of their parents' study-hard work ethic.
- Within a few years, he established a reputation as a first class tailor, and at 17 he decided to leave for the United Kingdom in an audacious attempt to make a reputation on Saville Row, the international acme of sartorial elegance.
Synonyms summit, top, crest, pinnacle, mountaintop, spire, heights, brow, apex, crown, tip, cap, vertex, zenith, apogee peak, pinnacle, zenith, highest point, high point, crown, crest, summit, top, tip, apex, apogee
OriginLate 16th century: from Greek akmē ‘highest point’. Until the 18th century it was often consciously used as a Greek word and written in Greek letters. |