Definition of top in English English dictionary
- A gay man who likes take an active sexual role rather than a passive role (e.g. to penetrate in anal sex rather than be penetrated)
- A garment worn to cover the torso
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached
- To kill, murder
- To excel, to beat
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay
- A top quark
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) That part of an object furthest away in the opposite direction from that in which an unsupported object would fall
His kite got caught at the top of the tree.
- A lid, cap or cover of a container
- The part viewed, or intended to be viewed, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the uppermost visible objects
Headings appear at the tops of pages. Or, Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.
- Rated first
She came top in her French exam.
- best
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay
- To cover on the top or with a top
- To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree
- provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs"
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top" 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" 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" platform surrounding the head of a lower mast the greatest possible intensity; "he screamed at the top of his lungs" the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" 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" the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; "a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth" finish up or conclude; "They topped off their dinner with a cognac"; "top the evening with champagne" cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon" provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs" be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree
- {n} the highest part, a pinnacle, surface, toy
- {v} to excel, cover, crop, snuff, rise up, tip
- Technical and Office Protocol A development of the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) protocol (also IEEE 802 3) under the auspices of Boeing Computer Services for office and laboratory automation use This has been combined with MAP and further development will be under the auspices of the MAP/TOP Users Group
- If you say something off the top of your head, you say it without thinking about it much before you speak, especially because you do not have enough time. It was the best I could think of off the top of my head
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon"
- cut the top off; "top trees and bushes"
- at the top of the heap: see heap. A toy having one end tapered to a point, allowing it to be spun, as by suddenly pulling a string wound around it
- Eve; verge; point
- The top of something such as a bottle, jar, or tube is a cap, lid, or other device that fits or screws onto one end of it. the plastic tops from aerosol containers. a bottle top
- Top-boots
- 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
- To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; chiefly used in the past participle
- A program on some Unix systems that shows the current state of system resource usage
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit
- 1 (aka: "dub") when the bottom of the club contacts the ball above its center of gravity and the ball immediately hits the ground 2 the end of the backswing where the hands are at their highest Example: "Nobody likes to top the ball " 2 "Joe hesitated too long at the top of his swing "
- {s} highest, prime, leading
- {i} summit, peak, apex, head; cover, lid, cap; toy with a shape that narrows to a point on which it can spin; sweatshirt, jersey, T-shirt, shirt, blouse
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top"
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- the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted"
- pass by, over, or under without making contact; "the balloon cleared the tree tops"
- The head, or upper part, of a plant
- To strike a ball above the center
- If one thing is on top of another, it is placed over it or on its highest part. the vacuum flask that was resting on top of the stove
- To strike (the ball) above the center; also, to make (as a stroke) by hitting the ball in this way
- not to be surpassed; "his top effort"
- If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with. The only way to come out on top is to adopt a different approach
- The top of an organization or career structure is the highest level in it. We started from the bottom and we had to work our way up to the top. his dramatic rise to the top of the military hierarchy. bottom Top is also an adjective. I need to have the top people in this company pull together
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top
- go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
- emphasis You can use from top to toe to emphasize that the whole of someone's body is covered or dressed in a particular thing or type of clothing. They were sensibly dressed from top to toe in rain gear
- A shot mistakenly hit with the bottom edge of the club, so that the ball is embedded in the ground before popping up, and in most cases traveling only a short distance
- To excel; to rise above others
- The ISO 4217 currency code for the Tonga Pa'anga
- A strand of longer fibers that have been straightened, made parallel and separated from the shorter fibers by combing
- A continuous strand of untwisted wool, with fibres lying parallel and short fibres removed This is the product needed for spinning into a yarn
- sheep by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior
- You can use top to indicate that something is the first thing you are going to do, because you consider it to be the most important. Cleaning up the water supply is their top priority On arrival, a six-course meal was top of the agenda
- To predominate; as, topping passions
- A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top
- You can use tops after mentioning a quantity, to say that it is the maximum possible. The publisher expected the book to sell 1,500 copies, tops = max see also topping
- You describe something as over the top when you think that it is exaggerated, and therefore unacceptable. The special effects are a bit over the top but I enjoyed it. = OTT
- 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"
- To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass
- You can use top to indicate that something or someone is at the highest level of a scale or measurement. The vehicles have a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour. a top-ranking Saudi officer. bottom
- The orientation in which the positive x-axis points right and the positive y-axis points up
- You can use top to describe the most important or famous people or things in a particular area of work or activity. The President met this afternoon with his top military advisers
- If something tops a particular amount, it is larger than that amount. Imports topped £10 billion last month
- It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft
- Top 40
- Relating to or playing popular music
I was listening to a Top 40 radio station.
- Top 40
- Popular music, usually the 40 most popular songs at a given time
- top antiquark
- The antiparticle of the top quark
- top banana
- The boss, the leader
Only the top banana can make a decision of that magnitude.
- top banana
- The principal comedian in a vaudeville or burlesque show
He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years.
- top bananas
- plural form of top banana
- top brass
- A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization
- top copy
- the typescript of a document that has carbon copies underneath
- top dead center
- The reference mark on a flywheel (and engine block) indicating the engine is in the top dead center position, when aligned
- top dead center
- A position in the four-stroke combustion process wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. This can either be during the compression phase or the combustion phase
- top deck
- the upper deck of a double-decker bus
- top dog
- in a competition, the one expected to win
- top dog
- the boss, the leader (of the pack)
- top dogs
- plural form of top dog
- top dollar
- The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price
Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses.
- top dollars
- plural form of top dollar
- top drawer
- Of the highest quality
Top drawer, I said.
- top edge
- The edge of a bat farthest from the ground
- top edge
- A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch
- top edge
- To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat
- top edged
- Simple past tense and past participle of top edge
- top edges
- plural form of top edge
- top edges
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of top edge
- top edging
- Present participle of top edge
- top fruit
- A fruit which grows on trees, contrasted with soft fruit
- top fruits
- plural form of top fruit
- top gear
- The highest gear that is available in a motor vehicle or car
- top gun
- Someone most highly rated
- top gun
- A most highly rated gun shooter
- top guns
- plural form of top gun
- top hand
- The batsman's hand that is further up the handle; used for control rather than power
- top hands
- plural form of top hand
- top hat
- A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk)
- top hats
- plural form of top hat
- top it off
- To emphasize or underscore; to make something even better or worse
The boss fired Fred and, to top it all off, he asked security to escort him to the door.
- top kill
- a method of closing an oil well, by pumping in drilling fluid (synthetic mud) to shut off the flow of oil, and following with concrete (cement) to plug the hole
- top line
- a flag on the edge of a minefield
- top line
- Total sales or revenue
- top notch
- Very good; of the highest quality
The award may be given to anybody who consistently writes top notch content.
- top of mind awareness
- The percent of respondents who, without prompting, name a specific brand or product first when asked to list all the advertisements they recall seeing in a general product category over the past 30 days
Companies that are well known advertise heavily and have attention-getting ads that tend to receive the highest top of mind awareness scores in ad tracking studies.
- top of mind awarenesses
- plural form of top of mind awareness
- top of the hour
- The time at (or very close to) the start of the next hour of time
We'll have a news update at the top of the hour.
- top of the line
- The best, fanciest, or highest quality, especially among selections in a product line
When you buy a top-of-the-line refrigerator, you expect it to work for many years.
- top of the morning
- A generic greeting said to someone in the morning
- top of the shop
- ninety
- top off
- to fill completely; to fill or refill the final portion of something not empty
The waitress topped off my coffee every few minutes.
- top oneself
- To overdose
- top oneself
- To commit suicide
- top oneself
- To outdo oneself or do more than one's previous best
- top order
- the batsmen who bat in the first few positions
- top priority
- Of the highest level of importance
- top priority
- Relatively highest importance
- top priority
- Item of highest importance
- top priority
- To be done before doing anything else
- top quark
- A quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass about 178,000 MeV. Symbol: t
- top quarks
- plural form of top quark
- top scorer
- The person who scores more than any other in a specified situation
- top secret
- Information classified at the highest level of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed
NSA's report on the Liberty incident was originally classified top secret.
- top secret
- Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities
Steve Jobs set up a top secret team to design the Macintosh.
- top secret
- A level of security clearance needed to access such information
- top sheet
- A bed sheet used between a bottom sheet and a blanket
- top shelf
- best, or high quality
- top shelf
- books, magazines, or movies that have adult content, or soft-core porn
Jim has a lot of top shelf magazines.
- top tier
- Elite
- top tier
- Top level, top rank, top standing
- top tier
- Belonging to the [[#Noun|top tier]]: elite, prestigious
- top tiers
- plural form of top tier
- top totty
- A very attractive woman or women, or (more recently) a man or men
- top up
- to extend the credit of something
I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket.
- top up
- to fill something
I shall top up with petrol before the long trip.
- top-dimensional
- Having the same dimension as the ambient topological space
- top-down
- of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits
- top-drawer
- Alternative spelling of top drawer
- top-dress
- To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer
- top-fermenting
- Pertaining to any of numerous edible yeasts that produce, e.g., ale, and whose respective fermenting actions appear to be at the top surface of the wort
- top-flight
- In the highest division
- top-flight
- Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence
- top-gun
- Attributive form of top gun
top-gun shooter.
- top-heavy
- having an excessive number of administrators or managers
- top-heavy
- having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple
- top-level
- Highest
- top-level
- Primary; a web page that directly accessible by typing its name, not followed by any additional information
- top-level
- Best
- top-level domain
- The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or any of the ccTLDs. Abbreviated TLD
- top-level domains
- plural form of top-level domain
- top-notch
- Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate
- top-of-mind awareness
- Alternative spelling of top of mind awareness
- top-of-mind awarenesses
- plural form of top-of-mind awareness (alternative spelling of top of mind awarenesses)
- top-post
- An act of top-posting
- top-post
- To make a top-post
- top-post
- A top-posted message
- top-post
- To post (a reply to a message) above the quoted original message (generally regarded as poor netiquette)
- top-spinner
- a type of ball, bowled by a leg spin bowler, that spins forward and, when bouncing off the pitch, bounces higher than expected and slows down
- top-tier
- Alternative spelling of top tier
- top banana
- 1. The main comic in a burlesque show.2. The head person, as of a group or project.3. Top Banana is a metaphor for alpha male
- top down
- Commanded by or originating from ones having the highest rank
- top down approach
- breaking down a system to gain insight into its compositional sub-systems
- top of the morning
- Good morning! Have a good morning!
- top up
- An additional or extra amount or portion that restores something to a former level
- top-down
- Top-down is a strategy of information processing and knowledge ordering, mostly involving software, but also other humanistic and scientific theories. In practice, it can be seen as a style of thinking and teaching. In many cases top-down is used as a synonym of analysis or decomposition.In a top-down approach an overview of the system is first formulated, specifying but not detailing any first-level subsystems. Each subsystem is then refined in yet greater detail, sometimes in many additional subsystem levels, until the entire specification is reduced to base elements
- top-tier
- Opposite of low tier
- top-tier
- The best and most oftenly picked character in a game. This character is more times than not the strongest and usually is chosen the most in tournament/high levels of play. Synonymous with low risk high reward
- topless
- a convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open
- topless
- Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers
In the spotlight so clear.
- topless
- lacking a top
- topmost
- at or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest
- topping
- Present participle of top
- topping
- wonderful
- topping
- Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza
- tops
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of top
- tops
- At the very most; maximum
Your essay should be two pages, tops.
- tops
- The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.
- tops
- plural form of top
- the top
- {n} upward
- topless
- {a} having no top, broken off or down
- topmost
- {a} uppermost, highest, chiefest, first
- topping
- {a} noble, fine, gallant, haughty
- top down
- Of or relating to a hierarchical structure or process that progresses from a large, basic unit to smaller, detailed subunits: "a top-down description of the department's function"
- top down
- of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details; "a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming"
- top hat
- (Giyim) A man's formal hat with a high cylindrical crown
- top off
- Tamamlamak, son düzenlemelerini yapmak
- top up
- Make up to the full quantity, capacity, or amount
- Top Secret
- ts
- top dog
- If a person or organization is top dog, they are the most successful or powerful one in a particular group. Reynolds has never concealed his ambition to be the top dog. the person who has the most power in a group, especially after a struggle
- top dog
- (Slang) boss, leader
- top dog
- a person who is in charge; "the head of the whole operation"
- top down
- A process for designing a program in which the high-level design of the program is created first; the design is then fleshed out in detail
- top down
- An investment approach that first seeks to define major economic and industry trends, and then proceeds to identify specific companies that are likely to benefit from those trends (See also "bottom-up ")
- top down
- The approach to a project whereby it is planned and estimated in increasing levels of detail one level at a time
- top down
- An investment method that first defines major economic and industry trends, and then identifies specific companies that are likely to benefit from those trends (see also Bottom-Up)
- top down
- td
- top end
- The highest part of the audible audio frequency spectrum
- top end
- the upper echelon of players "The players in maybe the top 10 percent Each team has one or two 'top end' players " Modano is a top end player Top end also can refer to the best players in a particular skill
- top end
- the amount of power an engine has at top speed
- top end
- A vehicle's final acceleration rate, or the amount rpm's available from a motor depending on type of motor and gearing
- top end
- usually refers to the top third of the Northern Territory Sometimes this term is used in reference to the tropical regions of the Kimberley and Queensland (the Gulf and Cape York)
- top gun
- One who performs at the pinnacle of professional ability; one who is the best at what one does
- top hat
- type of formal hat with a tall round top and an upturned brim
- top hat
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with beaver or silk
- top hat
- A top hat is a man's tall hat with a narrow brim. Top hats are now worn only on special occasions, for example at some weddings. A man's hat having a narrow brim and a tall cylindrical crown, usually made of silk. Also called high hat
- top line
- This term refers to the line from the back of the withers to the end of the Croup
- top line
- 1 Gross revenues to a firm
- top line
- THe line of the offense furthest from the goal usually referred to as near as the 4 meter mark
- top line
- Total revenues The term derives from the fact that this information appears at the top of an income statement
- top line
- The line from the back of the withers to the end of the croup
- top line
- The top line on a business' income statement shows its sales, otherwise known as revenues
- top model
- elite model, supermodel
- top off
- fill to the point of almost overflowing; "She topped off the cup"
- top off
- If you top off an event or period with a particular thing, you end it in an especially satisfactory, dramatic, or annoying way by doing that thing. He topped off his career with an Olympic gold medal To top it all off one of the catering staff managed to slice their finger cutting cheese. = round off
- top off
- fill to the point of almost overflowing; "She topped off the cup