What is the two different meaning of top?

Answer 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., 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., The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground., The utmost degree; the acme; the summit., The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school., The chief person; the most prominent one., The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head., The head, or upper part, of a plant., A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft., A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out., Eve; verge; point., The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface., Top-boots., To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains., To predominate; as, topping passions., To excel; to rise above others., To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle., To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass., To rise to the top of; to go over the top of., To take off the or upper part of; to crop., To perform eminently, or better than before., To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.