top
Pronunciation: /tɒp/
The English word “top” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
- The near end of somewhere.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- The chief person; the most prominent one.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- Fellatio; a blowjob.
- A top quark.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- 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.
Etymology
From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English topp (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *topp, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare typologically Latin apex (<< Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, attach, fasten, fit”)). Cognate…
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