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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
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Voltaire
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill
Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter
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
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
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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