Crossword clues for topped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Top \Top\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Topped; p. pr. & vb. n. Topping.]
To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
--Derham.To predominate; as, topping passions. ``Influenced by topping uneasiness.''
--Locke.-
To excel; to rise above others.
But write thy, and top.
--Dryden. (Golf) To strike a ball above the center.
(Naut.) To rise at one end, as a yard; -- usually with up.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pasttop)
WordNet
n. the upper part of anything; "the mower cuts off the tops of the grass"; "the title should be written at the top of the first page"
the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" [syn: top side, upper side, upside]
the top point of a mountain or hill; "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the summit of Monadnock" [syn: peak, crown, crest, tip, summit]
the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; "a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth" [syn: top of the inning] [ant: bottom]
the highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative]
the greatest possible intensity; "he screamed at the top of his lungs"
platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" [syn: whirligig, teetotum, spinning top]
covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "he couldn't get the top off of the bottle"; "put the cover back on the kettle" [syn: cover]
a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top"
a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance; "he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent"; "they had the big top up in less than an hour" [syn: circus tent, big top, round top]
adj. having a top of a specified character [ant: topless]
v. go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" [syn: exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past]
pass by, over, or under without making contact; "the balloon cleared the tree tops" [syn: clear]
be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree"
be ahead of others; be the first; "she topped her class every year" [syn: lead]
provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs"
reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon"
strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" [syn: pinch]
be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting" [syn: crown]
finish up or conclude; "They topped off their dinner with a cognac"; "top the evening with champagne" [syn: top off]
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Usage examples of "topped".
Phaid gave the bartender a curt nod and had his glass topped from the special reserve bottle.
The Qorma-i Tarkari, a dish of cauliflower, carrots and potatoes topped with lamb sauce and seasoned with turmeric, cumin, saffron and dill over basmati rice, was delicious.
So on they went to the point, where the cyclopean wall of granite cliff which forms the western side of Lundy, ends sheer in a precipice of some three hundred feet, topped by a pile of snowwhite rock, bespangled with golden lichens.
Rodde could picture them: comfortable, prosperous traders with their wives and servants all around them, children running and playing among the rushes, the fires glowing and adding to the thick atmosphere as servants ladled stews, panters cut hunks of bread, bottlers topped up mugs and cups, and all about dogs sat and scratched or waited, watching hopefully.
A mile and a half from town, I came to a grove of tall cocoanut trees, with clean, branchless stems reaching straight up sixty or seventy feet and topped with a spray of green foliage sheltering clusters of cocoanuts--not more picturesque than a forest of collossal ragged parasols, with bunches of magnified grapes under them, would be.
By the time they topped the last long hill that led down to the city, the steep slate roofs rising like a stone forest from the paler stones of the houses, the royal residence sitting on its artificial hill to the north as though it floated above the ordinary world, they could see the crowds gathering along the Horsegate Road.
The residential court was enclosed by expensive-looking stucco maisonettes, what the Americans referred to as townhouses, all of them topped with roofs of rounded green tile.
Abbey of Floating White was a spectral stone edifice, with nine slender minarets topped by silver-leaf domes, rising from the bedrock of the Djenn Marre like the very hand of the Great Goddess Miina.
Along the walls were glass and mirrory surfaces that reflected random images, distorting their shapes out of recognition, and Kerwin saw himself, a lean streak of black uniform topped with a brief crimson flame of hair.
I had the inner wall to deal with, three meters high and topped with broken glass, more wires and outcurving spikes.
The end result was a short, black strapless dress topped with a bolero jacket aswirl with red passementerie, a soft, straight, ribbon-tied ponytail, smoky eyes, red-red lips, onyx earrings, sheer black hose, and high-heeled patent pumps.
They settled for two small pizzas topped with sausage, pineapple, and ham.
It ended with a pithy comment on the precarious nature of the biotech industry and was topped by a grainy photograph of three men emerging from No.
At the front of the store was an array of polyvinyl chloride spruce trees predecorated with bubble lights and topped with glass penguins.
The second half-lemon was well-nigh pulpless and the golden collar had grown astonishing in width, when suddenly the drowsy silence which enveloped the yacht was broken by the sound of heavy footsteps and an elderly man topped with orderly gray hair and clad in a white-flannel suit appeared at the head of the companionway.