Word Meanings - TOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting. (more info) 1. A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its

Additional info about word: TOP

A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting. (more info) 1. A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOP)

• Crest
• Top
• summit
• apex
• bead
• crown
• Crown
• crest
• head
• brow
• Head
• chief
• leader
• ruler
• mind
• source
• section
• division
• topic
• gathering
• culmination
• crisis
• leadership
• guide
• commander
• acme
• Height
• Altitude
• elevation
• tallness
• exaltation
• top
• climax
• Situation
• Locality
• position
• site
• seat
• post
• place
• condition
• residence
• aspect
• footing
• office
• birth
• plight
• predicament
• standing

Related words: (words related to TOP)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.