Top vs Edge - What's the difference?
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(rfc-sense)The highest part or component of an object.
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#The part viewed, or intended to be viewed, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the uppermost visible objects.
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#A lid, cap or cover of a container.
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#A garment worn to cover the torso.
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#(lb) A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
#(lb) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
#(lb) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
#*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#*:from top to toe
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall / On her ungrateful top !
A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
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(lb) Someone who is eminent.
#(lb) The chief person; the most prominent one.
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:to be the top of zealots
#The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:And wears upon his baby brow the round / And top of sovereignty.
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, title= (lb) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
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(lb) A top quark.
The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.
(lb) 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.
(lb) Highest pitch or loudest.
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(lb) Eve; verge; point.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine.
The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
:(Knight)
Topboots.
:(Charles Dickens)
To cover on the top or with a top.
To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
To excel, to surpass, to beat.
* Shakespeare, King Lear
To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25442148]", BBC Sport , 26 December 2013:
(British, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
(slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
(archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
(archaic) To predominate.
* John Locke
(archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
(informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
(informal) Very good, of high quality.
Rated first.
The boundary line of a surface.
(label) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
An advantage.
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, magazine=(IEEE Spectrum), title= The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
* (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline)'', Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare , Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London,
* 1833 , Adam Clarke (editor), (w)'', II, 12, ''The New Testament ,
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost)'', Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, (George Steevens) (editor), ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare , Volume 1,
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost)'', 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), ''The Poetical Works of John Milton , Volume 1,
* 1820 , , (Ivanhoe)'', 1833, ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 3,
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
* , (Jeremy Taylor), Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2'', ''The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor , 1841,
* 1820 , , (Ivanhoe) , 1827,
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
* 1853 (1670), (John Milton), Charles R. Sumner (translator), (The History of Britain)'', ''The Prose Works of John Milton , Volume V,
(label) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
* 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
(label) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging .
To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
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(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
(cricket) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
* 2005 , Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More , Section 2: Paths and Walkways,
To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
* Dryden
(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
* Hayward
To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
* 2011 , Nicholson Baker, House of Holes ,
* 2012 , Ryan Field, Lasting Lust: An Anthology of Kinky Couples in Love ,
* 2012 , Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field,
As nouns the difference between top and edge
is that top is the highest part or component of an object while edge is the boundary line of a surface.As verbs the difference between top and edge
is that top is to cover on the top or with a top while edge is to move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.As an adjective top
is best; of the highest quality or rank.As an adverb top
is rated first.top
English
Noun
(wikipedia top) (en noun)Stoke 2-1 Besiktas, passage=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.}}
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Synonyms
* head (of a page) * (lid) cap, cover, lid * (LGBT) pitcher, active, seme (Japanese fiction)Antonyms
* (part of an object furthest away in the opposite direction from that in which an unsupported object would fall) base, bottom, underside * foot (of a page) * (garment) bottoms * (BDSM) bottom * (gay sexual slang) bottom, passive, pathicDerived terms
* big top * curly top * desktop * hilltop * housetop * laptop * mountaintop * on top * on top of * on top of the world * palmtop * rooftop * tabletop * tiptop * top and tail * top-down * top-hole * topless * top of mind * top of the hour * top of the morning * topping * treetopVerb
(topp)- I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
- I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.
- Top and tail the carrots.
- 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
- 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.
- Depression causes many people to top themselves.
- 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".
- lofty ridges and topping mountains
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- topping passions
- influenced by topping uneasiness
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (excel) beat, better, best, do better than, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, trump, worst * (kill) ** (standard) kill, murder, slaughter, slay ** do in, do away with, take out, wipe outDerived terms
* (kill) top oneself * untoppedAdjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- She came top in her French exam.
Synonyms
* firstSee also
* toppleStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----edge
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation, passage=It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.}}
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- No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
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- And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges :
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- Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
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- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
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- Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
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- we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
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- supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
- Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
Synonyms
* (advantage) advantage, gain * (sharp terminating border) brink, lip, margin, rim, boundary * (in graph theory) lineDerived terms
* bottom edge * inside edge * live on the edge * on edge * outside edge * top edgeSee also
*Mathworld article on the edges of polygons*
Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra*
Science book
Verb
(edg)- He edged the book across the table.
- He edged away from her.
citation, page= , passage=Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.}}
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- If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
- to edge her champion's sword
- By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged .
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- “I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
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- Paul had been edging since the first young guy started to fuck, and he wanted Paul to come inside his body that night.
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- His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.