The Meaning of top

• (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.

Synonyms

top side , upper side , upside , peak , crown , crest , tip , summit , top of the inning , acme , height , elevation , peak , pinnacle , summit , superlative , meridian , tiptop , whirligig , teetotum , spinning top , cover , circus tent , big top , round top , exceed , transcend , overstep , pass , go past , clear , lead , top out , pinch , crown , top off

Antonyms

bottom , bottom

Homophones

topp

Rhymes

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