top
Meanings
- 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.
- Someone who is eminent.
- The chief person; the most prominent one.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- To commit suicide.
- To murder or execute.
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
- To excel; to rise above others.
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- Situated on the top of something.
- Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.
- Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
- Relating to the chest or breasts.
- Best, highest.
- The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.
- A surname.
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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.