Top
[tɒp] or [tɑp]
Definition
(noun.) a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; 'he stared as she buttoned her top'.
(noun.) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); 'he removed the top of the carton'; 'he couldn't get the top off of the bottle'; 'put the cover back on the kettle'.
(noun.) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; 'he got a bright red top and string for his birthday'.
(noun.) platform surrounding the head of a lower mast.
(noun.) the greatest possible intensity; 'he screamed at the top of his lungs'.
(noun.) the highest or uppermost side of anything; 'put your books on top of the desk'; 'only the top side of the box was painted'.
(noun.) the upper part of anything; 'the mower cuts off the tops of the grass'; 'the title should be written at the top of the first page'.
(noun.) the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; 'a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth'.
(verb.) finish up or conclude; 'They topped off their dinner with a cognac'; 'top the evening with champagne'.
(verb.) cut the top off; 'top trees and bushes'.
(verb.) strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin.
(verb.) reach or ascend the top of; 'The hikers topped the mountain just before noon'.
(verb.) provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); 'the towers were topped with conical roofs'.
(verb.) be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; 'A star tops the Christmas Tree'.
(adj.) situated at the top or highest position; 'the top shelf' .
Inputed by Jules--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
(n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
(n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
(n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
(n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
(n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
(n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
(n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
(n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
(n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
(n.) Eve; verge; point.
(n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
(n.) Top-boots.
(v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
(v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
(v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
(v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
(v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
(v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
(v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
(v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
(v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
Checker: Mario
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Summit, apex, acme, pinnacle, zenith, utmost height, culminating point.[2]. Surface, upper side.[3]. Head, crown of the head.
v. a. Cap, tip.
Edited by Debra
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Apex, head, culmination, extreme, summit
ANT:Foot, bottom, root, base_tail
Checked by Ernest
Definition
n. a child's toy shaped like a pear and set or kept whirling round by means of a string or a whip.
n. the highest part of anything: the upper end or surface: the upper part of a plant: the crown of the head: the highest place rank or crown consummation: the chief or highest person: (naut.) a small platform at the head of the lower mast: the end-piece of a jointed fishing-rod: the same as top-boot esp. in pl.—adj. highest foremost chief: good capital.—v.t. to cover on the top: to tip: to rise above: to surpass: to rise to the top of: to take off the top of: to hit a golf ball above its centre.—v.i. to be eminent:—pr.p. top′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. topped.—adj. Top′-boot′ed wearing top-boots.—n.pl. Top′-boots long-legged boots with an ornamental band of bright-coloured leather round the top.—ns. Top′coat a coat worn outside one's other clothes: Top′-drain′ing the act or practice of draining the surface of land.—v.t. Top′-dress to spread manure on the surface of.—n. Top′-dress′ing a dressing of manure laid on the surface of land: (fig.) any superficial covering.—adjs. Top′full (Shak.) full to the top or brim; Top′gallant applied to the mast and sail next above the topmast and topsail and below the royal-mast.—n. Top′-hamp′er unnecessary weight on a ship's upper-deck.—adj. Top′-heav′y having the upper part too heavy for the lower: tipsy.—n. Top′-knot a crest or knot of feathers upon the head of a bird: a knot of ribbons worn by women on the top of the head: the popular name of some small fishes of the same genus as the turbot and brill.—adjs. Top′-knotted; Top′less (Shak.) supreme without superior; Top′loftical Top′lofty having a high top pompous bombastic.—ns. Top′loftiness; Top′man a man stationed in one of the tops: a top-sawyer; Top′mast the second mast or that immediately above the lower mast.—adj. Top′most next the top: highest.—ns. Top′per one who or that which excels; Top′ping the act of one who tops that which tops: (pl.) that cut off in topping.—adj. surpassing pre-eminent: arrogant.—adv. Top′pingly.—adj. Top′-proud (Shak.) proud in the highest degree.—ns. Topsail (top′sāl or -sl) a sail across the topmast; Top′-saw′yer the upper sawyer in a sawpit: (coll.) a superior a person of importance; Top′-side the upper part; Tops′man a head-drover a foreman; Top′-soil the upper part or surface of the soil; Top′-soil′ing removal of the top-soil; Top′-stone a stone placed on the top or which forms the top.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a top, denotes that you will be involved in frivolous difficulties. To see one spinning, foretells that you will waste your means in childish pleasures. To see a top, foretells indiscriminate friendships will involve you in difficulty.
Checker: Max
Examples
- The girl had a little parlour to sit in, away from the noise of the taproom, and a clean bedchamber at the top of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Up in the top loft of the factory we stored those machines, and at night we put up the benches and got everything all ready. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Your eyes turned across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which stands upon the top of your books. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's the old man on top who's in a bad spot. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Beg your pardon, sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sam threw the painted tops into a corner, and led the way through a dark passage, and up a wide staircase. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Hence the cold air on the tops of mountains, and snow on some of them all the year, even in the torrid zone. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He sat on the ground by the gypsy and the afternoon sunlight came down through the tree tops and was warm on his outstretched legs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When we came back from Tangier, in Africa, we were topped with fezzes of the bloodiest hue, hung with tassels like an Indian's scalp-lock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are square-topped, and are edged with translucent, hardish tissue, as if for crushing food. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He was a pedantic, disagreeable, affected fool, who visited his patients in leather breeches and topped boots. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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