(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
(n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
(n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
(n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
(n.) Top-boots.
(v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
(v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
(v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
(v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
(v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
(v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
(v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
(v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
(v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(2) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(3) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(4) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(5) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(6) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(7) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(8) Tottenham not interested in topping Arsenal, says Mauricio Pochettino Read more The second half was less frenetic, with the space much tighter and the chances fewer.
(9) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(10) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(11) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(12) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(13) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(14) The proportions of malnourished infants in BF+AF and BF groups were similar (3.2% and 2.4%, respectively, in males and 11.8% and 7.9%, respectively, in females) and significantly smaller than among top-fed infants (25% and 100% in males and females, respectively).
(15) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(16) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(17) In the Isa world, the past few weeks have seen a flurry of new launches , some offering table-topping rates .
(18) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(19) But in the friendlies we tend to give those players a chance to show what they can do at the top level.
(20) We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC.” Clarkson, May and Hammond have signed up to launch a rival show on Amazon’s TV service , while Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of the BBC’s Top Gear show with fellow presenters Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
Tracksuit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He considers himself more of a tracksuit coach, despite seeing his influence with the younger age groups at St George’s Park diminished since Matt Crocker swapped Southampton for the FA to become head of player and coach development, but would be more than happy to be part of the body’s consultation process as they seek to identify Hodgson’s successor.
(2) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(3) If anything, the danger to Trump’s ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his space, beats on the hood and screams, Do you know who my uncle is?
(4) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
(5) 3.56pm GMT The teams are in the tunnel, both of them wearing tracksuit tops.
(6) Fellaini has now taken his tracksuit off, fortunately he has a Man Utd strip underneath,” was the message posted on their official Twitter account moments before the Belgian came on for Herrera.
(7) City also make four changes: Vincent Kompany, Gael Clichy, Jesus Navas and Edin Dzeko came in for Joleon Lescott, Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner and Alvaro Negredo, who willall be tracksuited and booted behind the red brick wall surrounding the visitors' bench at Old Trafford.
(8) We don't have anything to hand to back that up, but as Keane also threatened to leave players at home if they wore tracksuit bottoms in training or walked on their heels instead of their toes, we wouldn't blame him for preparing to find himself short.
(9) Tracksuit Dave, professional punter, owner and racecourse 'face' He's the greatest there's ever been.
(10) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(11) He appeared well, even suave in comparison to his fellow defendants, who were clad in white prison tracksuits.
(12) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
(13) And I was ambitious: I didn't want to be in a tracksuit when I was 50, so I went to work as a county education adviser in Shropshire.
(14) George Weston, chief executive of the retailer’s parent group Associated British Foods, said the head-to-toe matching outfits, which sit somewhere betweenpyjamas and a tracksuit were already selling well.
(15) Meanwhile Antonio Conte tries Mourinho’s old Chelsea tracksuit for size in the American and European sector, where the former Italy coach’s new team face Liverpool at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, Real Madrid in Ann Arbor and Milan in Minneapolis.
(16) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
(17) "Martin O'Neill always wears a tracksuit or other training wear with the No31 on it, whereas the rest of his staff have their initials," writes James Frankland.
(18) Joe Pesci's burgundy velvet suit in My Cousin Vinny, tied with Ben Stiller's tracksuits in The Royal Tenenbaums.
(19) Sure enough, he abandoned his recent experiment with a back five, reverted to 4-1-4-1, recalled Jack Colback to central midfield and even swapped his matchday suit for a tracksuit.
(20) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.