English words for 'In terms of peaks.'
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noun
- the extreme top or summit
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (countable, figurative) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
- (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob (more commonly top).
- (West Midlands, Wales) A freeze pop, irrespective of brand.
- The very topmost point.
adj
adv
noun
- a lofty peak
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower
- (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
- (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
- The highest point.
- (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
verb
noun
name
- The name of a number of high points (summits, hills, mountains) in various places.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hernando County, Florida.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Palm Beach County, Florida.
- A neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in King County, Washington.
- A city mostly in Guilford County, North Carolina.
- A township in Decatur County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri.
- A neighbourhood of Seattle, Washington.
noun
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- An ultranationalist.
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal
- (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet
- the center of a cambered road
- the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave
- The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- The top line of a slope or embankment.
- A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
- The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
- The ridge or top of a wave.
- Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
verb
- reach a high point
- lie at the top of
- (transitive) To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).
- (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
- (transitive) To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The highest part of a hill.
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
verb
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the most extreme possible amount or value
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
verb
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- a meeting of heads of governments
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a V shape
- the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
- (Australia) A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (slang) the glans penis
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (Australia) A prediction about the outcome of something.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A piece of advice.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
verb
- cause to tilt
- walk on one's toes
- give insider information or advise to
- remove the tip from
- mark with a tip
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- strike lightly
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (Australia) To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- (thieves' cant) To give, pass.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (Australia) To predict something having a particular outcome.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) 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.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
adj
verb
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
adv
noun
- the peak of a hill
- the part of the face above the eyes
- the arch of hair above each eye
- (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The eyebrow.
- (figurative) Aspect; appearance; facial expression.
- The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
- The forehead.
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
- (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- (finance) Capitalization.
- A caption.
- (colloquial) Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
- An academic mortarboard.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- (Appalachia) Popcorn.
- A large size of writing paper.
- (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
- (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A protective cover or seal.
- (informal) A capital letter.
- (electronics) A capacitor.
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- (anatomy) A capillary.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- (slang) A capsule of a drug.
- (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- (colloquial) A capitalist.
- (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- a tight-fitting headdress
- something serving as a cover or protection
- a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
- an upper limit on what is allowed
- a top (as for a bottle)
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
verb
- To deprive of a cap.
- (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
- (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
- (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
- (transitive, figurative) To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
- (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
- (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
- (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
- (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
- (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
- (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
- (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- restrict the number or amount of
- lie at the top of
prefix
- High in altitude, montane.
- Etching or engraving.
- Located or positioned at a tip or tips of an object or body.
- Heights, high in location.
- Beginning, initial.
- The peak of a wave or cycle; accented.
- Located or positioned at the top; uppermost.
- Upper.
- Acrobatics.
- Pointed in shape.
- The extremities: limbs, head, fingers, toes, etc.
noun
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A spiral.
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
verb
noun
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
noun
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
verb
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (transitive, by extension) To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders
noun
- (by extension) Highest point or state; peak.
- (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
- (astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
- the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (nautical) Alternative form of peak.
- Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
- Any of several varieties of bean.
- (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
- (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
- (MLE, in the plural) Money.
- (especially, when without a qualifier) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
- seed of a pea plant used for food
- the fruit or seed of a pea plant
noun
verb
noun
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- (mathematics) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.
- (geometry) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A high point.
- (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
- the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
name
- (usually with "Peak") A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.
- A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.
- The Ameru people of Kenya.
- A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.
- (usually with "Mount") A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.
- (mythology, religion, usually with "Mount") The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
- The Ameru language.
noun
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- the skin that covers the top of the head
verb
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
verb
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
noun
- a series of hills or mountains
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a series of hills or mountains
- the limit of capability
- a variety of different things or activities
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the limits within which something can be effective
- a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
- a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- Selection, array.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- let eat
- change or be different within limits
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- assign a rank or rating to
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
noun
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A scombroid fish.
noun
- (climbing) The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
- (grammar) · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a sentence like a full stop, then for a medium pause like a semicolon).
- A climax; the best time in a given period.
- the most enjoyable part of a given experience
noun
- the extreme top or summit
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (countable, figurative) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
- (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob (more commonly top).
- (West Midlands, Wales) A freeze pop, irrespective of brand.
- The very topmost point.
adj
adv
noun
- a lofty peak
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or tower
- (figuratively) An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
- (geology) A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
- The highest point.
- (architecture) An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
verb
noun
noun
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- An ultraleftist.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
- An ultranationalist.
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically organized and participating in choreographies (including pyrotechnics), often of outwardly intimidating demeanour, but distinguished from a violent hooligan (although overlap between both subcultures is possible)
- A political extremist, in particular:
- (historical, France) An ultraroyalist.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal
- (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet
- the center of a cambered road
- the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave
- The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- The top line of a slope or embankment.
- A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
- The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
- The ridge or top of a wave.
- Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
verb
- reach a high point
- lie at the top of
- (transitive) To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).
- (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
- (transitive) To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The highest part of a hill.
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
verb
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the most extreme possible amount or value
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
verb
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- a meeting of heads of governments
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a V shape
- the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
- (Australia) A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (slang) the glans penis
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (Australia) A prediction about the outcome of something.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A piece of advice.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
verb
- cause to tilt
- walk on one's toes
- give insider information or advise to
- remove the tip from
- mark with a tip
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- strike lightly
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (Australia) To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- (thieves' cant) To give, pass.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (Australia) To predict something having a particular outcome.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) 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.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
adj
verb
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
adv
noun
- the peak of a hill
- the part of the face above the eyes
- the arch of hair above each eye
- (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The eyebrow.
- (figurative) Aspect; appearance; facial expression.
- The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
- The forehead.
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
- (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
verb
noun
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- (finance) Capitalization.
- A caption.
- (colloquial) Clipping of capture; a recording or screenshot.
- An academic mortarboard.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- (Appalachia) Popcorn.
- A large size of writing paper.
- (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
- (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A protective cover or seal.
- (informal) A capital letter.
- (electronics) A capacitor.
- The top part of a mushroom.
- (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- (anatomy) A capillary.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- (slang) A capsule of a drug.
- (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- (colloquial) A capitalist.
- (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- a tight-fitting headdress
- something serving as a cover or protection
- a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
- an upper limit on what is allowed
- a top (as for a bottle)
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
verb
- To deprive of a cap.
- (transitive, intransitive, video games) To capitulate (cause to capitulate) an opponent.
- (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
- (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
- (transitive, figurative) To conclude; to make something even more wonderful at the end.
- (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.
- (transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.
- (intransitive, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To lie; to tell a lie.
- (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
- (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
- (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- (transitive) To set (or reach) an upper limit on something.
- (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- restrict the number or amount of
- lie at the top of
noun
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A spiral.
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
verb
noun
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
noun
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
verb
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (transitive, by extension) To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
- carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders
noun
- (by extension) Highest point or state; peak.
- (astronomy) The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
- (astronomy) The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
- the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected
noun
- (nautical) Alternative form of peak.
- Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
- Any of several varieties of bean.
- (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
- (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
- (MLE, in the plural) Money.
- (especially, when without a qualifier) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
- seed of a pea plant used for food
- the fruit or seed of a pea plant
noun
verb
noun
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- (mathematics) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.
- (geometry) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A high point.
- (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
- the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
noun
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
- the skin that covers the top of the head
verb
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
noun
- a series of hills or mountains
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a series of hills or mountains
- the limit of capability
- a variety of different things or activities
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the limits within which something can be effective
- a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
- a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- Selection, array.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- let eat
- change or be different within limits
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- assign a rank or rating to
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
noun
- a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- A rugged range of mountains.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A scombroid fish.
noun
- (climbing) The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
- (grammar) · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a sentence like a full stop, then for a medium pause like a semicolon).
- A climax; the best time in a given period.
- the most enjoyable part of a given experience
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- a meeting of heads of governments
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
verb
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.