top
Part of speech: verb
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
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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 with Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), Cimbrian sòpf (“braid”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), German Topp (“top of a mast”), Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Luxembourgish Zapp (“plait, tress”), Vilamovian cöp (“braid, plait”), Yiddish צאָפּ (tsop, “braid”), Danish top (“top”), Icelandic toppur (“top”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Italian zuffa (“brawl”).
The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.
Inflected forms:
form: tops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: topping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: topped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: topped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover on the top or with a top.
pos: verb
examples: I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
gloss: To exceed in height.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
pos: verb
examples: Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, / And my invention thrive, Edmund the base / Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper
Within months, sales of ONE magazine were topping 2,000 copies.
The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton. [exceeded 100 mph]
gloss: To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
pos: verb
examples: Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.
Liverpool topped the table on Christmas Day and, after Arsenal's win at West Ham earlier on Boxing Day, would have returned to the top had they been the first team to beat City at home this season.
gloss: To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
pos: verb
examples: I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.
Top and tail the carrots.
Topping depletes the tree of stored energy reserves and reduces the tree's ability to produce energy, as a large percentage of the leaves are removed.
gloss: To commit suicide.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
reflexive
slang
examples: Depression causes many people to top themselves.
gloss: To murder or execute.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
archaic
rare
slang
examples: Thirty-six were cast for death, and only one was ‘topped’ (hanged), the very one that expected to be ‘turned up’ (acquitted) for highway robbery.
gloss: To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
pos: verb
examples: I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping.
Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".
As I went on doing s/m more and more, I found the idea of topping real attractive and so I started to do that. At this point in my life I'm playing top almost all the time.
gloss: To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: topping passions
lofty and topping mountains
, Book II, Chapter XXI
influenced by that topping uneasiness
gloss: To excel; to rise above others.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
pos: verb
gloss: To cover with another dye.
pos: verb
examples: to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening
gloss: To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
pos: verb
gloss: To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
gloss: To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
pos: verb
gloss: To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
pos: verb
gloss: To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
pos: verb
gloss: Situated on the top of something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: She's in the top dance school.
gloss: Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: He's a top lawyer.
That is a top car.
In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
gloss: Relating to the chest or breasts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: top surgery
gloss: Best, highest.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our product is top-rated on all major platforms.
This is the top-performing school in the area.
Derived words: top from the bottom
top it all
top it all off
top it off
top off
top one's boom
top oneself
top out
top the charts
top up
to top it off
untopped
a few roos loose in the top paddock
a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
a roo loose in the top paddock
kangaroos in the top paddock
crazy top downy mildew
top 40
top-age
top-aged
top antiquark
top-armour
top banana
top billing
top bin
top bollocks
top brass
top cat
top-class
top coat
topcoat
top copy
top dead center
top deck
top dog
top dollar
top drawer
top drive
top edge
top-end
top end of town
top feed
top fermentation
top-fermenting
top flight
top-flight
top forty
top fuel
top gear
top-grade
top gun
top hand
top hat
top-hatted
top ho
top job
top kek
top left
top-level
top light
top line
top loin
topmost
top notch
top note
top-of-the-range
top order
top pair
top piece
top-post
top priority
top-priority
top-quality
top rake
top-ranking
top scorer
top secret
top seed
top sheet
top shelf
top-shelf
topsoil
top soil
top spot
top ten
top tier
top tube
top whack
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: превъзхождам
roman: prevǎzhoždam
lang: Bulgarian
word: превишавам
roman: previšavam
lang: Dutch
word: uitmunten
lang: Finnish
word: olla parempi
lang: Finnish
word: voittaa
lang: Finnish
word: lyödä
lang: Finnish
word: päihittää
lang: Finnish
word: ylittää
lang: Macedonian
word: на́дмине
roman: nádmine
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: toppe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: overgå
lang: Portuguese
word: superar
lang: Slovak
word: predstihnúť
lang: Slovak
word: prekonať
lang: Slovak
word: prevýšiť
lang: Spanish
word: ser exitoso
lang: Spanish
word: ser un éxito
lang: Spanish
word: rendir
lang: Spanish
word: sobresalir
lang: Spanish
word: rematar
lang: Swedish
word: överträffa
lang: Ukrainian
word: переве́ршувати
roman: perevéršuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: переве́ршити
roman: perevéršyty