node Noun
( en noun)
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
Derived terms
* acnode
* crunode
* hardware node
* leaf-node
* tacnode
Related terms
* knot
* nodal
* noded
* nodule
Synonyms
* (computer networking) host
* (graph theory) vertex
See also
* neurode
Anagrams
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top English
Noun
( wikipedia top)
( en noun)
(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.
#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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.}}
(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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*, chapter=7
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients
, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
(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)
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, pathic
Derived 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
* treetop
Verb
( topp)
To cover on the top or with a top.
- I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.
- Top and tail the carrots.
To excel, to surpass, to beat.
- Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.
* Shakespeare, King Lear
- Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, / And my invention thrive, Edmund the base / Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper
To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25442148]", BBC Sport , 26 December 2013:
- 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.
(British, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
- Depression causes many people to top themselves.
(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- 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".
(slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
(archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
- lofty ridges and topping mountains
- (Derham)
(archaic) To predominate.
- topping passions
* John Locke
- influenced by topping uneasiness
(archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
- (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 out
Derived terms
* (kill) top oneself
* untopped
Adjective
( -)
(informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
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(informal) Very good, of high quality.
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Related terms
* top banana
* top dog
* top drawer
* top hat
Adverb
( -)
Rated first.
- She came top in her French exam.
Synonyms
* first
See also
* topple
Statistics
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