capstone
pronunciation
How to pronounce capstone in British English:
UK [ˈkæpstəʊn]
How to pronounce capstone in American English:
US [ˈkæpstoʊn]
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- Noun:
- a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
- a stone that forms the top of wall or building
Word Origin
- capstone (n.)
- also cap-stone, topmost stone in a construction, 1680s, from cap + stone (n.). Earliest use is figurative.
Example
- 1. At a time of crisis , buffett had the opportunity to put a capstone on his career as one of the greatest business statesmen in history .
- 2. Swimming around the capstone , which brown thought might have been lapis lazuli , he discovered an entrance and decided to explore inside .
- 3. Jesus looked directly at them and asked , " then what is the meaning of that which is written : " ' the stone the builders rejected has become the capstone ' ?
- 4. The capstone of the 100 days was the passage by congress of the national industrial recovery act - an omnibus proposal governing the whole range of industrial recovery .
- 5. The fall of the city , now known as ho chi minh city , was the capstone on the catastrophic failure of u. s.policy in vietnam .