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Definition of Top
Top
A stroke on the top of the ball.
A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
To cover with another dye; as, to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening and crocking.
To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
To arrange, as fruit, with the best on top.
To strike the top of, as a wall, with the hind feet, in jumping, so as to gain new impetus; -- said of a horse.
To improve (domestic animals, esp. sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior.
To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
To strike (the ball) above the center; also, to make (as a stroke) by hitting the ball in this way.
To strike a ball above the center.
To rise at one end, as a yard; -- usually with up.
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.
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.
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.
The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
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.
The chief person; the most prominent one.
The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
The head, or upper part, of a plant.
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.
A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Eve; verge; point.
The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
Top-boots.
To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
To predominate; as, topping passions.
To excel; to rise above others.
To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
To perform eminently, or better than before.
To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.

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Top Quotations

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
Mitch Hedberg

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Jack Welch

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
Robert H. Schuller

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Top Translations

top in Afrikaans is vermink
top in Danish is overflade, top
top in Dutch is afknotten
top in German is oben, Anfang {m}, Kopfende {n}
top in Latin is superficies
top in Portuguese is alto
top in Spanish is obturador, superficie, cima, parte superior

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