top

top

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/tɒp/]

Senses

1. top (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The highest or uppermost part of something.

Example: His kite got caught at the top of the tree.

Concept: Вершина

Polarities of the concept

2. top (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The highest or uppermost part of something.: The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.

Example: We flipped the machine onto its top.

3. top (noun) — sense 3

Definition: The highest or uppermost part of something.: The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.

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

4. top (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To cover on the top or with a top.

Example: I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

5. top (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To exceed in height.

Example: Five were proper slender youths, the eldest of whom had not yet beard full grown, black-browed and great of jaw; the sixth, huge as a neat, topped them by half a head.

6. top (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.

Example: Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.

7. top (adj) — sense 7

Definition: Situated on the top of something.

8. top (adj) — sense 8

Definition: Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.

Example: She's in the top dance school.

9. top (adj) — sense 9

Definition: Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

Example: He's a top lawyer.

10. top (adv) — sense 10

Definition: Best, highest.

Example: Our product is top-rated on all major platforms.

11. top (intj) — sense 11

Definition: The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.

Example: My hairs, you perceive, are grown grey in following our sublime trade: full many a time have I cried top in the winter, the first of all the gentlemen on the board; and many a time has it fallen to my lot to apply the snuffers, and take off the filthy excrescence from the candle myself, but never before, in the experience of fifty long years, was it thought that English tailors were inferior to foreign ones.

Polarities

Height ↔ Lowland — concept «Вершина»

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