English Dictionary

top

/tɒp/

noun

(irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top. / The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. / A lid, cap or cover of a container.

The mountain peak is the top of the world.

意味（1）

(irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.

To mount the V8, I simply placed it on its top, and then prepped the mobo/CPU for installation (applied thermal compound).

意味（2）

The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.

Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.

意味（3）

A lid, cap or cover of a container.

Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.

意味（4）

A garment worn to cover the torso.

I bought this top as it matches my jeans.

意味（5）

A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.

意味（6）

(baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.

意味（7）

(archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray;>br>From top to toe no place appeared bare

意味（8）

The near end of somewhere

The patio is at the top of my garden.

意味（9）

A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.

The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.

意味（10）

(archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.

to be the top of zealots

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

意味（13）

(gay 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.

意味（14）

(slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob.

Running up a check, I'ma drop the top

Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top

Running up a check, I'ma drop the top Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top You ain't tryna fuck, then baby don't just stop

意味（15）

(particle physics) A top quark.

意味（16）

The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.

意味（17）

(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.

意味（18）

(sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.

She sang at the top of her voice.

意味（19）

(wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

意味（20）

(obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.

Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine.

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The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

意味（22）

(in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.

There was one pair of boots in particular — a jolly, good-tempered, hearty-looking, pair of tops, that excited our warmest regard

意味（23）

(golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.

意味（24）

(golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.

意味（25）

(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.

[…] but with only three other tables on the patio apart from myself – two three-tops and a five-top – it's hard to imagine what the holdup is.