topとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /tɒp/, [tʰɒˀp]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɑp/, [tʰɑˀp]
• 韻: -ɒp

名詞

top (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tops)

1. The highest or uppermost part of something.

   Synonyms: peak, summit, overside

   Antonyms: bottom, base, underside

   His kite got caught at the top of the tree.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection.
     […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].

   1. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.
      • 2017 October 1 (last accessed), Dewayne Carel, “Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name)‎^[1]:

        To mount the V8, I simply placed it on its top, and then prepped the mobo/CPU for installation (applied thermal compound).

      We flipped the machine onto its top.

   2. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.

      Synonym: (of a page) head

      Antonym: (of a page) foot

      Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.

      Headings appear at the tops of pages.

   3. A lid, cap or cover of a container.

      Synonyms: cap, coverlid

      Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad.

   4. A garment worn to cover the torso.

      Antonym: bottom

      I bought this top as it matches my jeans.

   5. A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
   6. (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
   7. (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto VII, stanza 39:

        Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray;>br>From top to toe no place appeared bare

      • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:

        All the stored vengeances of Heaven fall / On her ungrateful top!

2. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.

   The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin.

3. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
   1. (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.
      • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [EIKONOKLASTES] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640:

        to be the top of zealots

   2. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.

      to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school

      • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

        And wears upon his baby brow the round / And top of sovereignty.

      • 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2-1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:

        After drawing their first game in Kiev the Potters are now top of Europa League Group E ahead of back-to-back games with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

4. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

   Synonyms: (usually male) dom, (female) domme

   Antonyms: bottom, sub

5. (gay slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

   I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom.

6. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) Oral stimulation to the male member, a blowjob.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex

   • 2016 November 18, J $tash (lyrics かつ music), “Guap”, in No More Distractions‎^[2]:

     Running up a check, I'ma drop the top
     Baby gimme neck, you know I want some top
     You ain't tryna fuck, then baby don't just stop

   • 2017, Juice Wrld (lyrics かつ music), “2017 Freestyle”, in Unreleased Songs‎^[3]:

     I get some top in my coupe […]
     Look at yo bitch she gon' choose
     She gon' give me top (on my block Avenue)

   • 2017, T-Wayne (lyrics かつ music), “Double Standards”, in Forever Rickey, track 2, 0:42–0:55:

     I just bought a new Ferrari off the lot,
     said she a virgin but she wanna give me top,
     she need some money so she call my phone a lot,
     I picked it up and then I told that bitch to stop.

   • 2017 December 22, “No Hook”, performed by 61 – Cee Drilla x Beans x Nz x Ruger, 0:53–1:00:

     Man chingy chingy on opps,
     catch ringy ringy, want lots
     And clingy, clingy, got dots
     She is a bad b, she gives tops

   • 2019 March 19, Nav (lyrics かつ music), “Price on My Head”, in Bad Habits‎^[4]:

     His bitch gave me some top, and now he wanna send me threats

   • 2019 November 20, Oliver Francis (lyrics かつ music), “I Like”, in The Adventures Of Oliver Francis‎^[5]:

     I like gettin' top (Ooh), I like drivin' coupes […]
     Yeah I got Erza Scarlet tryna fuck (Yeah, ooh)
     Gettin' top and watching Crunchyroll

   • 2020 February 21, King Von (lyrics かつ music), “Took Her to the O”, in Levon James‎^[6]:

     Just got some top from this stripper bitch, she from Kankakee

   • 2020 August 7, DON RCS (lyrics かつ music), “Top Down”‎^[7]:

     She asked to give me some top and I’m down
     Head feeling loose ‘cos I’m lit off the brown

   • 2020 September 11, Ron Suno feat. DDG (lyrics かつ music), “Wraith”‎^[8], chorus first time 0:24–0:27:

     I’m in a wraith with a thot, she gon’ give me some top, cause my music a bop, aye

7. (particle physics) A top quark.

   Hypernym: flavor

8. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
   • June 18 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.

9. (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.
10. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.

    She sang at the top of her voice.

    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

      I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

11. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
12. (廃れた用法, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
    • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, OCLC 837543169:

      Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine.

13. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

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14. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
    • 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), 2nd edition, London: John Macrone, […], OCLC 912950347:

      There was one pair of boots in particular — a jolly , goodtempered , hearty - looking , pair of tops, that excited our warmest regard

15. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
16. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
17. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, または which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
    • 2014, Jamey Glasnovic, Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies, →ISBN, page 144:

      […] but with only three other tables on the patio apart from myself – two three-tops and a five-top – it's hard to imagine what the holdup is.

    • 2015, Jeff Benjamin, Front of the House: Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors & Secrets, →ISBN:

      It is uncanny how a server can stand in front of a ten top, without the safety net of pen and paper, and remember every item ordered by each guest including salads, […]

派生語

動詞

top (三人称単数 現在形 tops, 現在分詞 topping, 過去形および過去分詞形 topped)

1. To cover on the top or with a top.

   I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

2. To excel, to surpass, to beat.

   Synonyms: beat, better, best, exceed; see also Thesaurus:exceed

   Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, / And my invention thrive, Edmund the base / Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper

3. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

   Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.

   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[9]", BBC Sport, 26 December 2013:

     Liverpool topped the table on Christmas Day and, after Arsenal's win at West Ham earlier on Boxing Day, would have returned to the top had they been the first team to beat City at home this season.

4. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)

   I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.

   Top and tail the carrots.

   • 2003, Dan Prendergast, Erin Prendergast, The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance, →ISBN, page 78:

     Topping depletes the tree of stored energy reserves and reduces the tree's ability to produce energy, as a large percentage of the leaves are removed.

5. (Britain, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.

   Depression causes many people to top themselves.

7. (Britain, slang, rare) To murder.

   Synonyms: kill, murder, slaughter, slay; see also Thesaurus:kill

8. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

   I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping.

   Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".

9. (gay slang, transitive, intransitive) To anally penetrate in gay sex.
10. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
    • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology

      lofty and topping mountains

    topping passions

    • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:

      , Book II, Chapter XXI

      influenced by that topping uneasiness

11. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
12. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
13. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.

    to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening

14. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
15. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
16. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
17. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
18. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
19. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

派生語

• (kill): top oneself
• untopped

形容詞

top (not comparable)

1. Situated on the top of something.
2. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.

   She's in the top dance school.

3. (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

   He's a top lawyer.

   That is a top car.

   • 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian‎^[10]:

     In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

関連する語

副詞

top (not comparable)

1. Rated first.

   She came top in her French exam.

同意語

• first

参考

• topple

アナグラム

• OPT, OPt, OTP, PTO, TPO, oPt, opt, opt., pot