What is the difference between top and mast?
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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.
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Topboots.
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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).
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(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.
A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
In naval tradition, a mast is a non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those in his command.
The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
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(of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
(agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
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Top is a see also of mast.
As nouns the difference between top and mast
is that top is the highest part of an object while mast is a tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires or mast can be the fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.As verbs the difference between top and mast
is that top is to cover on the top or with a top while mast is to supply and fit a mast to a ship or mast can be (of swine and other animals) to feed on forest seed or fruit.As a adjective top
is (informal) best; of the highest quality or rank.As a 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
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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
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* 1000 English basic words ----mast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mast, from (etyl) , Irish adhmad.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, foremast , mainmast , masthead , mizzenmast , before the mast}}See also
(other terms) * boom * crow's nest * flagpole * spar * top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop * tower * column * pole * pylon * towerEtymology 2
(etyl) , from West Germanic; probably related to meat.Noun
(en noun)- He would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast , squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
- Oak-mast , and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
- Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast .