Word Finder - tops

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The highest or uppermost part of something.

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His kite got caught at the top of the tree.

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• overside
• peak
• summit

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A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.

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

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(heading) Someone who is eminent.

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

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• dom
• domme

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A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

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I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom.

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A top quark.

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The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

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(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.

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(sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.

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She sang at the top of her voice.

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

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

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

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(in the plural) Topboots.

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A stroke on the top of the ball.

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

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(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.

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To cover on the top or with a top.

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I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

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To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)

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I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.

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To excel, to surpass, to beat.

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

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• beat
• best
• better
• exceed

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To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

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Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.

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To commit suicide.

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Depression causes many people to top themselves.

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To murder.

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• kill
• murder
• slaughter
• slay

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(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

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Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".

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(gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.

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(gay sexuality) To anally penetrate.

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To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.

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lofty ridges and topping mountains

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To predominate.

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topping passions

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To excel; to rise above others.

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To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.

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(dyeing) To cover with another dye.

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to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening

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To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).

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To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.

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(of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.

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To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.

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To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.

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To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

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The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field

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Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

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Great; excellent.

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At the very most; as a maximum.

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Your essay should be two pages, tops.

Girls look great in scoop necks or sweetheart cut tops.

Howie wasn't tops on my list of favorite people at the moment.

The evaporation which is associated with transpiration is no doubt another, but by themselves they are insufficient to explain the process of lifting water to the tops of tall trees.

The tops of their heads had no hair, but were carved into a variety of fantastic shapes, some having a row of points or balls around the top, others designs resembling flowers or vegetables, and still others having squares that looked like waffles cut criss-cross on their heads.

In Campania the vines are allowed to climb freely to the tops of the poplars.

Along Hudson Bay shore there is a strip of similar rocks, and a long row of small islands of the same age, with great sheets of trap or diabase forming the tops of the hills.

On the dome-like tops of such mountains as are too high for trees are large clusters of rhododendrons and patches of grasses fringed with flowers.

It is well to feed down a luxuriant crop when the plants are level with the ridge tops.

Except in the extreme north and south, and on the tops of the highest mountains, where there is no insect life as food supply, spiders are found all over the world, even in isolated oceanic islands.

In summer the country appears as one waving field of wheat, millet and mealies; whilst on the mountain slopes and on their flat tops are large flocks of sheep, cattle and goats, and troops of ponies.

A plan which has been found to answer well is to arrange them in cardboard boxes, either with glass tops or in sliding covers, in drawers - the name being placed outside each box and the specimens gummed into the boxes.

The northern sides and tops of the lower heights are often covered with dense forests of oak, cork, pine, cedar and other trees, with walnuts up to the limit of irrigation.

The density of the forest is greatly augmented by the cipos, or lianas, which overgrow the largest trees to their tops, and by a profusion of epiphytes which cover the highest branches.

On the temperate uplands of the southern states there are imposing forests of South American pine (Araucaria brasiliensis), whose bare trunks and umbrella-like tops give to them the appearance of open woodland.

In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

Part of it is built on a level plateau and part in deep valleys adjoining, the tops of the campaniles of the lower portions being on a level with the streets of the upper.

The chain passes over a pulley driven by the engine, placed at such a height as to allow it to rest upon the tops of the tubs, and round a similar pulley at the far end of the plane.

This tract consists of a succession of stony ridges of trap rock, enclosing valleys or basins of fertile soil, to which cultivation is for the most part confined, except where the shallow soil on the tops of the hills has been turned to account.

It is composed of a series of four larger and four smaller plaques of gold, rounded at the tops and set together alternately.

In the Lower Silurian formation at Plattsburg and Chazy, in Clinton county, are two beautiful grey or grey and pink marbles, one of which is a favourite among domestic marbles for mantels, table tops and other interior decorations.

On their level tops the beams supporting the platforms were laid and fastened by wooden pins, or inserted in mortices cut in the heads of the piles.

The tops should be covered with z in.

The defects of this method are that the tops are liable to split in the brake and the butts to remain foul.

The willows are cut at the first indication of the sap rising and "couched" in rotten peelings and soil at a slight angle, the butts being on the ground, which should be strewn with damp straw from a manure heap. The tops are covered lightly with rotted peelings and by periodical application of water, fermentation is induced at the bottom, heat is engendered, the leaves force their way through the covering and peeling may begin.

The Arctic or ArcticAlpine zone covers in the United States only the tops of a few mountains which extend above the limit of trees, such as Mt Katahdin in Maine, Mt Washington and neighboring peaks in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the loftier peaks of the Rocky, Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Flora.The Alpine flora, which is found in the United States only on the tops of those mountains which rise above the limit of trees, consists principally of a variety of plants which bloom as soon as the snow melts and for a short season make a brilliant display of colors.

When the number of roots is limited, the tops FIG.

On the contrary, the tops of all young shoots are pinched off when some three or four leaves are formed, and this is done again and again throughout the season.

The immediate application of a very hot atmosphere would unduly force the tops, while the roots remained partially or wholly inactive; and a strong bottom heat, if it did not cause injury by its excess, would probably result in abortive growth.

The ripening process must be brought about by free exposure to light, and by the application of a little extra heat with dryness, if the season should be unfavourable; and both roots and tops must submit to a limitation of their water supply.

For winter use the tops of the most useful kinds of herbs should be cut when in flower or full leaf and quite dry, and spread out in an airy but shady place so as to part slowly with the moisture they contain and at the same time retain their aromatic properties.

Layer the tops of chrysanthemums, to obtain dwarf flowering plants.

The broken roots should be cut back to fresh wood, and the tops should be headed back in proportion.

The proper condition is when the tops are turning yellow and falling down.

If planted in " ribbon lines " or " massing," strict attention must be given to pinching off the tops, so that the lines or masses will present an even surface.

It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap.

Cabbages that have headed may usually be preserved against injury by frost until the middle of next month, by simply pulling them up and packing them closely in a dry spot in the open field with the heads down and roots up. On approach of cold weather in December they should be covered up with leaves as high as the tops of the roots, or, if the soil is light, it may be thrown over them, if leaves are not convenient.

For dressing flat surfaces three wooden pegs (102) of equal length were used; a string was stretched between the tops of two, and the third peg was set on the point to be tested and tried against the string.

The lower range of jars in the oven had then black tops, while the upper ranges were entirely red.

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is more level ground on the tops of these mountains than in areas of corresponding size in the valleys below.

In fact, in journeying westwards across the tops of the Highland mountains we pass, as it were, over successive stages in the history of the origin of Highland scenery.

From the larger fragments of the denuded tableland we advance to ridges with narrow tops, which pass by degrees into sharp rugged crests.

He was essentially a rustic god,"a wood-spirit conceived in the form of a goat," living in woods and caves, and traversing the tops of the mountains; he protected and gave fertility to flocks; he hunted and fished; and sported and danced with the mountain nymphs.

The only grouting that should be permitted in tall buildings would be in levelling up the tops of the concrete footings to receive the masonry courses, or in a very thin layer between the column pedestal and the masonry bed.

We know that the rites at Mozdalifa were originally connected with a holy hill bearing the name of the god Quzah (the Edomite Koze) whose bow is the rainbow, and there is reason to think that the ifadas from Arafa and Quzah, which were not made as now after sunset and before sunrise, but when the sun rested on the tops of the mountains, were ceremonies of farewell and salutation to the sun-god.

The drops A and K may be readily conceived to be equally diverted by the wind, and to fall near the tops of the two hills respectively.

The tops of most of the buildings and the whole nucleus of the temple of Isis to the floor remained all the year round above the water level until the dam was raised another 26 ft.

Another point of difference between the English and American hive is the roof, which being gable-shaped in the former allows warm packing to be placed directly on the frame tops, so that the bees are covered in when the roof is removed and may be examined or fed with very little disturbance.

There was an acropolis on each side of the valley, which lies between precipitous hills with flat tops, over which buildings had extended.

She had once again donned the white dress, and the hem touched the tops of her bare feet.