1. subst. The highest or uppermost part of something.
His kite got caught at the top of the tree.
2. subst. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.
We flipped the machine onto its top.
3. subst. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen. Headings appear at the tops of pages.
4. subst. A lid, cap or cover of a container.
Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.
5. subst. A garment worn to cover the torso.
I bought this top as it matches my jeans.
6. subst. (nautical) A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
7. subst. (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
8. subst. (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
9. subst. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.
10. subst.Someone who is eminent.:
11. subst. (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.
12. subst. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school
13. subst. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
14. subst. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom.
15. subst. (physics) A top quark.
16. subst. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
17. subst. (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.
18. subst. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
She sang at the top of her voice.
19. subst. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
20. subst. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
21. subst. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
22. subst. (in the slang) Topboots.
23. subst. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
24. subst. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
25. subst. (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.
26. v. To cover on the top or with a top.
I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
27. v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.
Top and tail the carrots.
28. v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.
29. v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.
30. v. (UK, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
Depression causes many people to top themselves.
31. v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping.
Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".
32. v. (slang) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
33. v. (slang) To anally penetrate.
34. v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
lofty ridges and topping mountains
35. v. (archaic) To predominate.
topping passions
36. v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
37. v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
38. v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening
39. v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
40. v. (slang) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
41. v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
42. v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
43. v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
44. v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
45. adj. Situated on the top of something.
46. adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
2. subst. A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
3. subst. (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
4. subst. (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
5. v. To put something on a pinnacle.
6. v. To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
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