Top vs Down - 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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, 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.
Hill, rolling grassland
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* Ray
* Tennyson
(usually plural) Field, especially for racing.
(UK, mostly, in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
* Sandys
A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
* Cook (First Voyage)
(lb) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
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South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
(lb) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
Into a state of non-operation.
(lb) The direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
(lb) Get down.
Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
From a remoter or higher antiquity.
* (and other bibliograpic details) (Daniel Webster)
From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
From less to greater detail.
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From the higher end to the lower of.
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From one end to another of.
Depressed, feeling low.
On a lower level than before.
Having a lower score than an opponent.
(baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
(colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to
(not comparable, US, slang) Relaxed about, accepting of.
(not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
Finished]] (of a task); defeated or [[deal with, dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
(not comparable, military, police, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered.
* 2013 , P.J. Hoover, Solstice , (ISBN 0765334690), page 355:
(obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Madame D'Arblay
(pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
(American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while it is on the ground.
To write off; to make fun of.
(obsolete) To go down; to descend.
a negative aspect; a downer.
(dated) A grudge ((on) someone).
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 10:
An act of swallowing an entire drink in one.
(American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down'', or ''is downed .
(crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
An downstairs room of a two story house.
down payment
Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
(botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
* Dryden
That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
* Tennyson
* Southern
As a symbol top
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one of the counties of northern ireland.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
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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
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English
(wikipedia down)Etymology 1
(etyl) doun, from (etyl) , from British Celtic dunon'' 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh ''din'' 'hill', Irish ''dún'' 'hill, fort'), from (etyl) *''dheue'' or ''dhwene . More at (town); akin to (dune).Noun
- Churchill Downs', Upson '''Downs (from ''Auntie Mame , by Patrick Dennis).
- And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
- My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
- Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex.
- She went by dale, and she went by down .
- Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs .
- On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs , and went ashore at Deal.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Adverb
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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- Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
- (Arbuthnot)
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Usage notes
* Down' can be used with verbs in ways that change the meaning of the verb in ways not entirely predictable from the meanings of the ' down and the verb, though related to them. See .Antonyms
* (From a higher position to a lower one) up * (At a lower place) up * up * (Into a state of non-operation) up * upPreposition
(English prepositions)Antonyms
* (From the higher end to the lower) upDerived terms
* (from the higher end to the lower) sell down the riverAdjective
(en adjective)- So, things got you down ? / Is Rodney Dangerfield giving you no respect? / Well, bunky, cheer up!
- The stock market is down .
- Prices are down .
- They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
- He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
- At 5-1 down , she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
- Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
- Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
- Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
- As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
- ''The system is down .
- Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
- Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
- We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
- There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
- We have a chopper down near the river .
- It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
- I stay with Chloe the longest. When she's not hanging out at the beach parties, she lives in a Japanese garden complete with an arched bridge spanning a pond filled with koi of varying sizes and shapes. Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand. Chloe has this whole new Japanese thing down .
- a down denial
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Antonyms
* (Depressed) up * (On a lower level) up * (Having a lower score) up * (Inoperable) upVerb
(en verb)- He downed an ale and ordered another.
- The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
- To down proud hearts.
- I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
- He downed two balls on the break.
- He downed it at the seven-yard line.
- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (drink) See alsoNoun
(en noun)- I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
- She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word.
- I bet after the third down , the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
- I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs .
- She lives in a two-up two-down .
Derived terms
* down and out * down at heel * down for the count * down in the dumps * down in the mouth * down memory lane * down on one's luck * down payment * down pat * downed (US and Canadian football) * downer * down to the short strokes * first down (US and Canadian football) * fourth down (US football) * second down (US and Canadian football) * third down (US and Canadian football) * top-down * upside downReferences
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
- The first down begins to shade his face.
- When in the down I sink my head, / Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
- Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares!