top

To mount the V8, I simply placed it on its top, and then prepped the mobo/CPU for installation (applied thermal compound).

2013 March 20, Dewayne Carel, “Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 2017-10-01:

We flipped the machine onto its top.

The highest or uppermost part of something.

(irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.

The highest or uppermost part of something.

The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.

Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.

Headings appear at the tops of pages.

The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.

Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.

I bought this top as it matches my jeans.

I like this pyjama top.

A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.

(baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.

Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray;
From top to toe no place appeared bare

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:

All the stored vengeances of Heaven fall / On her ungrateful top!

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

His kite got caught at the top of the tree.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

The patio is at the top of my garden.

The shop is at the top of my street.

The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.

to be the top of zealots

1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

(archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.

The chief person; the most prominent one.

to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school

And wears upon his baby brow the round / And top of sovereignty.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

After drawing their first game in Kiev the Potters are now top of Europa League Group E ahead of back-to-back games with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2-1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:

The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.

(BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.

A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.

(loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.

A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.

Coordinate term: bottom

I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom.

Jean-Alain is a man of great physical strength, and Jesse is sure he is quite a handful for his tops.

2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 336:

(LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.

Running up a check, I'ma drop the top
Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top
You ain't tryna fuck, then baby don't just stop

2016 November 18, J $tash, “Guap”, in No More Distractions:

I get some top in my coupe […]
Look at yo bitch she gon' choose
 She gon' give me top (on my block Avenue)

2017, Juice Wrld, “2017 Freestyle”, in Unreleased Songs:

I just bought a new Ferrari off the lot,
 said she a virgin but she wanna give me top,
 she need some money so she call my phone a lot,
 I picked it up and then I told that bitch to stop.

2017, T-Wayne, “Double Standards” (track 2, 0:42–0:55 from the start), in Forever Rickey:

Man chingy chingy on opps,
catch ringy ringy, want lots
And clingy, clingy, got dots
She is a bad b, she gives tops

2017 December 22, “No Hook”, performed by 61 – Cee Drilla x Beans x Nz x Ruger, 0:53–1:00:

His bitch gave me some top, and now he wanna send me threats

2019 March 19, Nav, “Price on My Head”, in Bad Habits:

I like gettin' top (Ooh), I like drivin' coupes […]
Yeah I got Erza Scarlet tryna fuck (Yeah, ooh)
Gettin' top and watching Crunchyroll

2019 November 20, Oliver Francis, “I Like”, in The Adventures Of Oliver Francis:

Just got some top from this stripper bitch, she from Kankakee

2020 February 21, King Von, “Took Her to the O”, in Levon James:

She asked to give me some top and I’m down
Head feeling loose ‘cos I’m lit off the brown

I’m in a wraith with a thot, she gon’ give me some top, cause my music a bop, aye

2020 September 11, Ron Suno, “Wraith” ft. DDG, chorus first time 0:24–0:27:

(slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob.

Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob.

June 18 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.

The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

(ropemaking) 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.

She sang at the top of her voice.

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.

Most cotton is sold as top, requiring only predrafting prior to spinning.

2014, W. J. Johnson, Yarn Works: How to Spin, Dye, and Knit Your Own Yarn, page 32:

(wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine.

1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

(obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

There was one pair of boots in particular — a jolly, good-tempered, hearty-looking, pair of tops, that excited our warmest regard

1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:

(golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.

What is wanted is just the reverse - i.e top or overspin, which causes the ball to revolve in the direction in which it is going.

1886, E.T.Sachs, The Boys Own Annual: Lawn-Tennis of the Present, volume 9, page 778:

(golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.

[…] but with only three other tables on the patio apart from myself – two three-tops and a five-top – it's hard to imagine what the holdup is.

2014, Jamey Glasnovic, Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies, →ISBN, page 144:

It is uncanny how a server can stand in front of a ten top, without the safety net of pen and paper, and remember every item ordered by each guest including salads, […]

2015, Jeff Benjamin, Front of the House: Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors & Secrets, →ISBN:

(in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.

My first topswarm came off on the 25th June, and a second top on the day following; both were put into skeps of one size, and appeared to be equal as regards the number of Bees.

(military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.

(Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).

en-noun

top (countable and uncountable, plural tops)

one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

頂上

chōjō, ちょうじょう

suprulo

BDSM: dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay

主動 /主动

gay sexual slang: gay man who likes to penetrate in sex

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.

inh

Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”)

cog

German Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”)


top

I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

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.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 17:

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

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Within months, sales of ONE magazine were topping 2,000 copies.

2005 August 23, Leslie Feinberg, “Headwaters of first mass political gay movement rise”, in Workers World:

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]

2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 50:

To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.

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.

2013 December 26, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:

To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

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.

2003, Dan Prendergast, Erin Prendergast, The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance, →ISBN, page 78:

Depression causes many people to top themselves.

(British, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.

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.

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

(British, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute.

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".

(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

(LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during intercourse.

topping passions

lofty and topping mountains

1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:

, Book II, Chapter XXI
influenced by that topping uneasiness

(archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.

(archaic) To excel; to rise above others.

(nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.

to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening

To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).

(slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.

(of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.

To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.

To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.

(golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

en-verb

top (third-person singular simple present tops, present participle topping, simple past and past participle topped)

tops (present singular third-person)
topping (participle present)
topped (participle past)
topped (past)


top

She's in the top dance school.

(informal) Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.

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.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

(informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.


top

Our product is top-rated on all major platforms.

This is the top-performing school in the area.

top-dimensional

top; contains the word but unrelated to the above etymologies