英和和英

名詞

top line (複数形 top lines)

1. (accounting) Total sales or revenue.

参考

• bottom line

名詞

top line (複数形 top lines)

1. (military) A flag on the edge of a minefield.
2. (linguistics) The line connecting individual letters in Devanagari.
3. The best set of options.
   • 2023 June 3, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 2-1 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], Wembley Stadium:

     United are increasingly confident of signing Chelsea's England midfield man Mason Mount, while a top line striker is a pressing priority, with Tottenham's Harry Kane linked on a regular basis.

参考

• stemline

アナグラム

• pointel, pontile, potline

名詞

topline (複数形 toplines)

1. The upper curvature of a horse's or dog's withers, back, and loin.
   • 2002, Ted S. Stashak, Ora Robert Adams, Adams' Lameness in Horses (page 75)

     When viewing the horse in profile, attention must be paid to the curvature and proportions of the topline.

2. Principal billing.
   • 1969, Ebony magazine (volume 24, number 9, July 1969, page 146)

     In recent weeks Cosby has, perhaps more than any other topline entertainer of the moment, been both at the pinnacle and at the crossroads.

3. The edge that runs along the top of the opening of a shoe.

動詞

topline (三人称単数 現在形 toplines, 現在分詞 toplining, 過去形および過去分詞形 toplined)

1. (transitive) To bill (a performer) as the primary entertainer in a production.
   • 1983, John Kobal, A History of Movie Musicals: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance (page 147)

     A popular series of musical shorts he made for Mack Sennett's company in 1930 added to his success as a radio vocalist, and had made him a star by the end of 1931, when Paramount toplined him in The Big Broadcast […]

2. (transitive, intransitive) To be billed as the primary entertainer in (a production).
   • Variety [1]

     [Whitney] Houston's success in music led her to topline the features "Waiting to Exhale," "The Preacher's Wife" and the telefilm "Cinderella."

   • 2006, Everett Aaker, Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters (page 418)

     Although occasionally he toplined in a “B” picture, he found his greatest achievements were as a character actor.

   • 2009, Robert Viagas, I'm the Greatest Star

     Over the next few years he toplined three "Encores!" productions […]

派生語

• topliner

アナグラム

• pointel, pontile, potline