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TOPPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a top of a specified character
Classified under:
Similar:
flat-top; flat-topped (having a flat or flattened upper surface)
lidded (having a lid)
screw-topped (having a lid with a spiral groove)
Antonym:
topless (having no top)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb top
Context examples:
Last year, Opportunity became the long-distance champion of all off-Earth vehicles when it topped the previous record set by the former Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 moon rover.
(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)
The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A chain of extinct underwater volcanoes rising 1000m or higher above the sea floor, either flat-topped or peaked and located in the eastern North Atlantic.
(Dreizack seamounts, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
There were very few people about, and though the sun was bright, and the air clear and fresh, the big, grim-looking waves, that seemed dark themselves because the foam that topped them was like snow, forced themselves in through the narrow mouth of the harbour—like a bullying man going through a crowd.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Across the moor there had ridden a black-coated gentleman, with buff-topped hunting-boots and a couple of grooms behind him, the little knot of horsemen showing up clearly upon the curving swells and then dipping down into the alternate hollows.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Presently his honest black face topped the rocks and his Herculean figure emerged upon the top of the pinnacle.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The region is studded with flat-topped mountains.
(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)
Then the front ranks began to surge slowly forward, to trot, to canter, to gallop, and in an instant the whole vast array was hurtling onward, line after line, the air full of the thunder of their cries, the ground shaking with the beat of their hoofs, the valley choked with the rushing torrent of steel, topped by the waving plumes, the slanting spears and the fluttering banderoles.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
