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(noun.) a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; 'he stared as she buttoned her top'.

(noun.) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); 'he removed the top of the carton'; 'he couldn't get the top off of the bottle'; 'put the cover back on the kettle'.

(noun.) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; 'he got a bright red top and string for his birthday'.

(noun.) platform surrounding the head of a lower mast.

(noun.) the greatest possible intensity; 'he screamed at the top of his lungs'.

(noun.) the highest or uppermost side of anything; 'put your books on top of the desk'; 'only the top side of the box was painted'.

(noun.) the upper part of anything; 'the mower cuts off the tops of the grass'; 'the title should be written at the top of the first page'.

(noun.) the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; 'a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth'.

(verb.) finish up or conclude; 'They topped off their dinner with a cognac'; 'top the evening with champagne'.

(verb.) cut the top off; 'top trees and bushes'.

(verb.) strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin.

(verb.) reach or ascend the top of; 'The hikers topped the mountain just before noon'.

(verb.) provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); 'the towers were topped with conical roofs'.

(verb.) be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; 'A star tops the Christmas Tree'.

(adj.) situated at the top or highest position; 'the top shelf' .

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• The girl had a little parlour to sit in, away from the noise of the taproom, and a clean bedchamber at the top of the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In this a vacuum is maintained by a condenser, the vapors passing from the pan to the condenser through the great curved pipe rising from the top, which pipe is five feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Up in the top loft of the factory we stored those machines, and at night we put up the benches and got everything all ready. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Your eyes turned across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which stands upon the top of your books. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It's the old man on top who's in a bad spot. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Beg your pardon, sir, but this here officer o' yourn in the gambooge tops, 'ull never earn a decent livin' as a master o' the ceremonies any vere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Sam threw the painted tops into a corner, and led the way through a dark passage, and up a wide staircase. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Hence the cold air on the tops of mountains, and snow on some of them all the year, even in the torrid zone. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He sat on the ground by the gypsy and the afternoon sunlight came down through the tree tops and was warm on his outstretched legs. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• When we came back from Tangier, in Africa, we were topped with fezzes of the bloodiest hue, hung with tassels like an Indian's scalp-lock. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They are square-topped, and are edged with translucent, hardish tissue, as if for crushing food. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He was a pedantic, disagreeable, affected fool, who visited his patients in leather breeches and topped boots. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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