Meaning of Acme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a generic company name.
   alt-of
2. Obsolete spelling of acme.
   alt-of, obsolete
3. A generic or monopoly company.
4. A 29° trapezoidal threading used for various fittings and adapters.
   uncountable
5. A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
6. A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
7. A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
10. Full bloom or reproductive maturity.
    rare
11. An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
12. Sexual orgasm.
    euphemistic
13. An unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
14. Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.
15. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
16. Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format.
    alt-of
17. An unincorporated community in Columbus County, North Carolina.
18. A township in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
19. An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County and Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
20. A ghost town in Oklahoma.
21. A ghost town in Texas.
22. A census-designated place in Washington.
23. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Latin tong, euen whan it was, as the Grecians say, in ακμη, that is, at the hiest pitch of all perfitenesse.”

“Eum.: Our Loves what are they But howerly Sacrifices, only wanting The prease and tumult of Solemnity? If then i'th' heat and Achme of Devotion We drink a new fiame in, can it be ought But to increase the Worship?”

“Ah, what a sight burst upon our astonished eyes as we gained its summit! It seemed the very acme of mountain glory in all the glories around us.”

“The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.”

“The few words of advice she gave him as to escaping political embarrassments, struck him as the acme of wisdom, and as indicating an interest in his well-being of the kindest description;...”

“He must be one that can instruct your youth, And keep your acme in the state of truth”

“The very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy.”

“[He] then holds back his own climax for another ten or fifteen minutes of active copulation until his mate signals him that she is about to reach her acme; then they both ecstatically erupt together.”

“She has enough of the narcissist in her to love exhibiting herself and to have the exhibition itself arouse her and bring her to her acme (that's very literary, even a little affected, but it's a word that pleases me).”

“He reached a climax about one minute after penetration and as this was always much sooner than his partner reached her acme this disturbed him.”

“Henry knew better than to alienate one of the Acme secretaries.”

“[ Netanyahu ] showed everybody how close Iran was to getting nuclear weapons by having this spherical cartoon bomb with a wick coming up like Acme style. I was watching this thing thinking, are we worried about Ahmadinejad or are we worried about Inspector Clouseau?”

“"As we have not as yet," says he, "spoken a single word about the very ancient, and I know not whether more ridiculous or perverse, persuasion of our forefathers about semigods, this seems the proper place for saying a few words about this so celebrated figment, as it was chiefly in this period it attained its acmè, and it was believed as a true and necessary article of faith, that there are genii or semigods, called in our language Alfa and Alfa-folk."”

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