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capstone

/kap-stohn/US // ˈkæpˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈkæpˌstəʊn) //

拱顶石,巅峰之作,顶点,巅峰时刻

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a finishing stone of a structure.
    • : the crowning achievement, point, element, or event.

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Examples

  • Just to be sure, they hoisted the capstone and looked on its underside.

  • It was a capstone to a career that saw him top the Yankees charts in hits, singles, doubles, stolen bases, hit-by-pitches, at-bats and games.

  • Signed in August 1965, the Voting Rights Act marked the capstone of the civil rights era.

  • That is often missing in rural America, where communities like Lindsay’s can treat high school as a capstone, not a steppingstone.

  • The tenth and final flight of the Gemini series, it was by any measure a perfect capstone.

  • But for Carter, this is a capstone to a career spent in the decidedly unsexy corridors of Pentagon power.

  • On the western side of the capstone is the history of the construction.

  • Cantor said he sees the election of de Blasio as the capstone of a transformational year for the progressive movement.

  • Once a favorite to replace Clinton at State, he is a contender for Defense Secretary as a capstone to his long legislative career.

  • I think this was a capstone to the major military project of his term.

  • Tower and spire are almost the same height, together giving to the capstone an elevation of 273 feet.

  • It is for them to put the capstone upon the sublime structure.

  • They had climbed the capstone of her pyramid, her sun had touched its zenith, and her last word was said!

  • The idea in itself attracted him, as a fitting capstone to his resolve not to go home to supper.

  • The promontory is connected with a still bolder and loftier headland, the Capstone Rock.