top

Signification

Noun

1. The highest or uppermost part of something.
2. The highest or uppermost part of something.
3. The highest or uppermost part of something.
4. The highest or uppermost part of something.
5. The highest or uppermost part of something.
6. The highest or uppermost part of something.
7. The highest or uppermost part of something.
8. The highest or uppermost part of something.
9. The near end of somewhere.
10. A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
11. Someone who is eminent.
12. Someone who is eminent.
13. A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
14. A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
15. (slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse with other people with penises.
16. (slang) Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob.
17. A top quark.
18. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
19. 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.
20. Highest pitch or loudest volume.
21. A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
22. (obsolete) Eve; verge; point.
23. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
24. (slang) Topboots.
25. A stroke on the top of the ball.
26. A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
27. (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
28. Short for topswarm.
29. The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
30. a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).

Verb

1. To cover on the top or with a top.
2. To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
3. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
4. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
5. (slang) To commit suicide.
6. (slang) To murder or execute.
7. To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
8. (slang) To anally penetrate in gay sex.
9. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
10. To excel; to rise above others.
11. To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
12. To cover with another dye.
13. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
14. (slang) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
15. To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
16. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
17. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
18. To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

Adj

1. Situated on the top of something.
2. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
3. (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

Adv

Best, highest.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɒp/

Étymologie

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English top (“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.
Cognate with Scots tap (“top”), North Frisian top, tap, tup (“top”), Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), West Frisian top (“top”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), Low German Topp (“top”), German Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Icelandic toppur (“top”).
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.

Phrases

This time , however , their top flight stay lasted only one season .

Cette fois, cependant, leur séjour de haut vol n'a duré qu'une seule saison.

It's shooting branches from the trunk , which means it can't properly get its sap to the top .

Il tire des branches du coffre, ce qui signifie qu'il ne peut pas correctement amener sa sève au sommet.