Word Finder - summit

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A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

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In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

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A gathering or assembly of leaders.

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They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

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(hiking) To reach the summit of a mountain.

There was a rest area at the summit already crowded with rid­ers.

The view from the summit overlooking Table Bay is also one of much grandeur.

Eight miles from Ouray, but still four miles from the summit of Red Mountain Pass, the road leveled out.

With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.

It stands upon the slope and summit of the cliffs above Filey Bay, which is fringed by a fine sandy beach.

Each summit is crowned by an inverted pear-shaped stone, bearing a triple cross, emblematic of the Trinity.

The highest summit in the state is Tancitaro (12,660 ft.).

The summit of the mountain is then covered by a whitish-grey cloud, which is being constantly forced down the northern face towards Cape Town, but never reaches the lower slopes.

The true source of the Adige is in some small lakes on the summit of the Reschen Scheideck Pass (4902 ft.), and it is swollen by several other streams, near Glurns, where the roads over the Ofen and the Stelvio Passes fall in.

No water is to be found on the summit.

The Transandine line, designed to open railway communication between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso, was so far completed early in 1909 that on the Argentine side only the summit tunnel, 2 m.

The principal summit is Tomor (7916 ft.), overhanging the town of Berat.

His reward for his services was election in 1859 to the Ohio Senate as the member from Portage and Summit counties.

The cheek-teeth strongly curved, forming from the base to the summit about a quarter of a circle, the concavity being directed outwards in the upper and inwards in the lower teeth.

He was able to ski from the summit, but only on those slopes and trails designated blue or green, novice or intermediate.

We totally enjoyed our exhilarating trek to the summit.

Summit is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and will also deliver.

It seems possible that the road at first led to Tusculum, that it was then prolonged to Labici, and later still became a road for through traffic; it may even have superseded the Via Latina as a route to the S.E., for, while the distance from Rome to their main junction at Ad Bivium (or to another junction at Compitum Anagninum) is practically identical, the summit level of the former is 725 ft.

The rainfall on the summit is heavy, 72.14 inches a year being the average of twelve years' observations.

A bank of clouds tumbled down the slope to the left of him, bathing the summit in cold dampness.

Bearing this in mind, one can readily imagine how close together the equipotential surfaces must lie near the summit of a high sharp mountain peak.

Priscian the grammarian speaks of him as having attained the summit of honesty and of all sciences.

The summit is flat and quite bare of vegetation, but the panorama in every direction is extremely grand.

His brother Domhnall (Donnell) was king of Ailech, a district in Donegal and Derry; the royal palace, the ruined masonry of which is still to be seen, being on the summit of a hill Boo ft.

In the then state of knowledge, it appeared that all the species of animals and plants could be arranged in one series, in such a manner that, by insensible gradations, the mineral passed into the plant, the plant into the polype, the polype into the worm, and so, through gradually higher forms of life, to man, at the summit of the animated world.

The method is simply the logical result of the fact that every existing form of life stands at the summit of a long branch of the whole tree of life.

The surface of the summit (the highest point is variously stated at 3549, 35 82 and 3850 ft.) is broken into small valleys and hills, and is covered with luxuriant vegetation, its flora including the superb orchid Disa grandiflora and the well-known silver tree.

Remains of villas can also be traced, and to the largest of these, which occupied the summit of the promontory, and belonged first to Marius, then to Lucullus, and then to the imperial house, probably belongs the subterranean Grotta Dragonara.

The summit of the great mountain mass is occupied by Tibet, a country known by its inhabitants under the name of Bod or Bodyul.

Of these ranges the summit of Mt Latmus alone reaches 4500 ft.

Adjoining the town on the south-east is the beautifully-wooded Cluny Hill, a favourite public resort, carrying on its summit the tower, 70 ft.

The upper fort is a quadrangular building on the summit, with only one approach, and was deemed impregnable by the Mysore princes.

In May 1900, however, very rich deposits of gold and silver were discovered in Nye county, near the summit of the San Antonio Mountains, and a new era began in Nevada's mining industry.

A range of low hills intervenes between Felanitx and the Mediterranean; upon one summit, the Puig de San Sebastian, stands a Moorish castle with a remarkable series of subterranean vaults.

The splendid emerald at the summit, which was engraved with the arms of Gregory XIII., was restored by Napoleon and now adorns another papal tiara at Rome.

Following the increase of population north of the Columbia, the territory was divided, and Washington Territory was established on the 2nd of March 1853, with the river as the southern boundary to the point where it is intersected by the forty-sixth parallel, and thence along that parallel to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, thereby including portions of the present states of Idaho and Montana.

The fort occupies a conspicuous site on the summit of an abrupt rock which commands the river.

When ripe, the grain is of an elongated oval form, with a few hairs at the summit.

C. Janssen constructed an observatory just below the very summit.

The hills are formed by a short, broad, anticlinal fold, which is flat or nearly so on its summit.

To the east, on the summit of the height, is the cathedral of St Carthagh, of various dates.

Proceeding thence southwards, we find in succession the Monte Vettore (8128 ft.), the Pizzo di Sevo (7945 ft.), and the two great mountain masses of the Monte Corno, commonly called the Gran Sasso d'Italia, the most lofty of all the Apennines, attaining to a height of 9560 ft., and the Monte della Maiella, its highest summit measuring 9170 ft.

This volcanic tract extends across the Campagna of Rome, till it rises again in the lofty group of the Alban hills, the highest summit of which, the Monte Cavo, is 3160 ft.

It is on the windward faces of the highest ground, or just beyond the summit of less dominant heights upon the leeward side, that most rain falls, and all that does not evaporate or percolate into the ground is conducted back to the sea by a route which depends only on the form of the land.

The face is scored with ravines, a particularly deep cleft, known as The Gorge, affording the shortest means of access to the summit.

Europe generally, the principal coal seams occur in the Upper Carboniferous, while the Lower Carboniferous is mainly composed of marine deposits, with, however, the first bed of coal near its summit.

Another method, which was introduced into America from Europe about 1890, is that of the summit or " hump."

The plateau-like summit, which originally could be reached only from the south by a steep and narrow path, was rendered almost impregnable to Indian attack by a sheer cliff on the river side of the hill, a deep ravine along its eastern base and steep declivities on the other sides.

On the summit La Salle built store-houses and log huts, which he surrounded by intrenchments and a log palisade.

But when it grows in dense woods, where the lower branches decay and drop off early, only a small head of foliage remaining at the tapering summit, its stem, though frequently of great height, is rarely more than 11 or 2 ft.