Topped vs Tipped - What's the difference?
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(top)
(rfc-sense)The highest part or component of an object.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
#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.
(tip)
The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
* 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
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, title= A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
(music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(Webster 1913)
To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
* Hudibras
* Thomson
To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
To fall over.
To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
To dump (refuse).
(US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
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To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
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(skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
An act of tipping up or tilting.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.
* 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' ,
* 2009 , Donna Kelly,
* 2009 , Rother District Council,
* 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip'
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
(colloquial) A very untidy place.
The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
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* Jonathan Swift
To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
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A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
* 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
A piece of advice.
To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
(AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
(AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
As verbs the difference between topped and tipped
is that topped is (top) while tipped is (tip).topped
English
Verb
(head)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.}}
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.}}
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.
Synonyms
* firstSee also
* toppleStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----tipped
English
Verb
(head)tip
English
Etymology 1
Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .Noun
(en noun)- When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Synonyms
*(extreme end of something) extremityVerb
(tipp)- I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
- truncheon tipped with iron head
- Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Etymology 2
Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.Verb
(tipp)- the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
- I tip my 40 to your memory.
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Derived terms
* tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippableNoun
(en noun)page 389,
- As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
- When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
Rother District Council Website
- There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
- Computer collectibles saved from the tip
citation, page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}
Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.Verb
(tipp)- A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
Noun
(tips)Etymology 4
Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.Verb
(tipp)citation, passage=Mother
Derived terms
* tipper * tippingNoun
(en noun)- A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.