top
IPA: tˈɑp
noun
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
- The near end of somewhere.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (heading) Someone who is eminent.
- (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- (broadly, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- (LGBT slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse with other people with penises.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
- (golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- (golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- A surname.
- Short for topswarm. [The initial swarm of bees leaving a hive.]
verb
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (Britain, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (Britain, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- (gay slang, transitive, intransitive) To anally penetrate in gay sex.
- (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
- (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
adjective
- Situated on the top of something.
- (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
- (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
adverb
- Rated first.
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Examples of "top" in Sentences
- Let's look at two top gaming machines and see how they compare, and which we consider the ¨all time top¨ gaming machine.
- View It » just who are these self appointed "top conservatives"? probably a balance to the "self-appointed _top progressives"
- If you look at a plant, you find it dark near the ground, growing lighter near the top with its green leaves, and then the blossom; the glory is at the _top_.
- Among stones and rocks the recognized sign is one stone set on top of another (_top line_) and in places where there is nothing but grass the custom is to twist a tussock into a knot (_third line_).
- I'm yet to discover a way to convert a top to a body outfit/part, which would address the above problem partially, despite a few token efforts at file renaming (the .bmps exported are preceded with top~ or body~) and hex editing (the .package file refers to the file names it expects to find for the .bmps).
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