Pop vs Top - What's the difference?
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(label) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
* 1941 , LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:
A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
Shortened from (pop shot): a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with (pot) as in (pot shot).
(label) A portion, a quantity dispensed.
(label) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
* 2011 , Mark Lutz, Programming Python , page 1371:
A bird, the European redwing.
(label) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
(label) To burst (something): to cause to burst.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , chapter 1:
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To act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
To hit (something or someone).
(label) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
(label) To ejaculate.
(label) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
* 2010 , Enrico Perla, ?Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(label) To place (something) (somewhere).
* Milton
To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
* 1994 , Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text :
To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
* 1995 , David Brin, Startide Rising :
* 2009 , Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design :
To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; with in'', ''out'', ''upon , etc.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire.
To stand out, to be visually distinctive.
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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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, title= (lb) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
(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.
As a noun pop
is a social club and debating society at or pop can be (also in plural) a popular classical music concert.As a symbol top is
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English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions.Noun
- The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop .
Synonyms
* (soda pop) see the list at (m)Derived terms
: (see below)Verb
(popp)- The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
- The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping' noise "like a crisp packet being ' popped " coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.
- Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- He popped a paper into his hand.
- We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
- Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
- The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
- He that killed my king / Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
- a trick of popping up and down every moment
- She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped .
top
English
Noun
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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
- (Derham)
- 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.