Usually means: Uppermost layer or highest point.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. top, top-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. top, top, the top: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. top, top, top-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. top, top-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. top: Vocabulary.com
  6. Top, top: Wordnik
  7. top, top-, the top: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Top: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. top: Wiktionary
  10. top: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. top: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. top: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. TOP, top-: Dictionary.com
  14. top (1), top (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. top: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. T.O.P, T.O.P. (Shinhwa album), T.O.P. (Tower of Power album), T.O.P (entertainer), T.O.P (rapper), T.O.P (singer), TOP (disambiguation), TOP, The Top (Kafka), The Top (album), The Top (short story), Top (BDSM), Top (Unix), Top (category theory), Top (clothing), Top (comics), Top (disambiguation), Top (rolling papers), Top (sailing ship), Top (sex), Top (software), Top (technical analysis), Top (tool), Top, .top: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Top: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. top: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. top: Rhymezone
  20. top, top (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. top: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. top, top-: MyWord.info
  23. top: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Top: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. top: Free Dictionary
  26. top: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. top, top-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. top: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. TOP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  2. top-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. TOP: bizterms.net
  5. TOP, Top: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. TOP, Top: Investopedia
  7. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  8. top: Legal dictionary
  9. TOP: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. top: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Top-: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. TOP, top(o)-, top-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. top, top, top: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. TOP: Acronym Finder
  4. TOP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. top: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Top: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Top: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. top: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. top, top, top, top, top: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. top: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. T.O.P, The Top, top(s), top (verb): Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. top: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The highest or uppermost part of something.
noun:  (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
noun:  The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
noun:  A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
noun:  A garment worn to cover the torso.
noun:  A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
noun:  (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
noun:  (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
noun:  The near end of somewhere.
noun:  A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
noun:  Someone who is eminent.
noun:  (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.
noun:  The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
noun:  (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
noun:  (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
noun:  (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
noun:  (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Oral stimulation of the male member; a blowjob.
noun:  (particle physics) A top quark.
noun:  The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
noun:  (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
noun:  (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
noun:  The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
noun:  (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
noun:  (golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
noun:  (golf, cue sports, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
noun:  (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
verb:  To cover on the top or with a top.
verb:  To exceed in height.
verb:  To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
verb:  To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
verb:  To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
verb:  (British, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
verb:  (British, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute.
verb:  (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
verb:  (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during intercourse.
verb:  (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
verb:  (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
verb:  (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
verb:  (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
verb:  To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
verb:  (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
verb:  (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
verb:  To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
verb:  To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
verb:  (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
adjective:  Situated on the top of something.
adjective:  (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
adjective:  (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.
adverb:  Best, highest.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Short for topswarm. [The initial swarm of bees leaving a hive.]

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