The Oxford Thesaurus - An A-Z Dictionary Of Synonyms
.pdfto arrive five minutes apart. 23 schedule, set, organize, adjust, fix: She timed her entrance to coincide exactly with the crash of the cymbals.
time-honoured
adj. established, traditional, habitual, customary, rooted, conventional, age-old, set, fixed; venerable, venerated, respected, revered, honoured: We observed the time-honoured custom of kissing the Blarney Stone.
timeless adj. eternal, everlasting, immortal, undying, endless, unending, ceaseless, abiding, deathless, ageless, changeless,
unchanged, immutable, unchanging, permanent, indestructible: He was enraptured by the timeless beauty of the heavens.
timely adj. punctual, prompt, well-timed, propitious, opportune, convenient, favourable, auspicious: We welcomed the timely arrival of our rescuers.
time-serving
adj. self-seeking, self-serving, selfish, self-indulgent, ambitious, mercenary, venal, greedy, profit-oriented, fortune-hunting, gold-digging, opportunistic, hypocritical, obsequious, sycophantic, toadying, toad-eating, boot-licking, subservient, Colloq on the make, on the take, Slang US out for
numero uno, Taboo slang brown-nosing: Members of the party were known to be time-serving and untrustworthy.
timetable n. schedule, calendar, curriculum, programme, agenda, Chiefly Brit diary: My timetable doesn't allow for long lunches.
time-worn adj. ageing, old, tired, worn, time-scarred, decrepit, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, run-down, dog-eared, ragged, moth-eaten, threadbare, seedy, shabby, archaic, antique, well-worn, worn out, pass‚, broken-down, old-fashioned, out-dated, dated, antiquated, ancient, obsolescent, obsolete, stereotyped, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, stale, trite, overused, Colloq old hat: She went into her time-worn routine about two living as cheaply as one.
timid adj. shy, retiring, modest, coy, bashful, diffident, timorous, fearful, apprehensive, mousy, scared, frightened, nervous, cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, Colloq chicken-hearted, yellow,
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yellow-bellied, chicken, chicken-livered, lily-livered, gutless: |
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I knew this strapping marine when he was a timid little boy. |
tinker |
v. trifle, dabble, meddle, mess (around or about), toy, fool or |
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play (around or about), Brit potter or US putter (about or |
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around), Colloq fiddle or monkey or muck (about or around): |
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Graham has always enjoyed tinkering with engines. |
tinny |
adj. 1 shabby, flimsy, flimsily or poorly made, shoddy, |
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inferior, cheap, tawdry: He bought himself a tinny old |
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rattletrap of a car. 2 metallic, harsh, twangy: She plays that |
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tinny old trumpet day and night. |
tint |
n. 1 tincture, wash, hue, colour, cast; tinge, touch, hint, |
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trace, dash, colouring, shade, tone, suggestion: In the west a |
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tint of pink lingered in the sky. I thought I detected a tint of |
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anger in his voice. 2 dye, rinse, wash, stain, tincture, |
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colourant, colouring, touch-up: What's the harm in granny's |
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using blue hair tint? |
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--v. 3 dye, stain, colour, rinse, tinge, touch up: Sandra |
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tints her hair to give it a coppery sheen. 4 tinge, colour, |
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influence, affect, taint, stain: A deep pessimism tints all his |
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writing. |
tiny |
adj. microscopic, infinitesimal, minute, minuscule, diminutive, |
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wee, small, little, miniature, micro, mini, pocket, |
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pocket-sized, bantam, pygmy or pigmy, midget, Lilliputian, |
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petite, delicate, dainty, elfin, slight, insignificant, |
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negligible, trifling, paltry, inconsequential, puny, Colloq |
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pint-sized, teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, itty-bitty, |
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itsy-bitsy: She wore the tiniest bikini I had ever seen. When I |
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saw them together I realized how tiny she is. Forgetting my |
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birthday was only a tiny thing. |
tip° |
n. 1 end, extremity, peak, apex, summit, vertex, cap, top, |
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pinnacle, tiptop, crown, head, terminal, ferrule or ferule, |
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finial, nib or neb, point: The tip of the mountain showed above |
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the clouds. He broke off the tip of the billiard cue. |
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--v. 2 top, cap, crown, surmount: The foil is tipped with a |
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rubber button to prevent injury. |
tipý |
v. 1 Often, tip over. upset, overthrow, knock or cast or throw |
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down, up-end, knock over, overturn, topple (over), capsize: His |
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elbow tipped the lamp, which fell with a crash. 2 slant, lean, |
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incline, slant, tilt, cant: The statue is tipped a bit off the |
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vertical. 3 empty, unload, dump, deposit, Slang Brit ditch: |
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They tipped their load of gravel all over my driveway. |
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--n. 4 (rubbish or US garbage) dump, rubbish or refuse or trash |
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heap, dumping-ground: This old chair belongs in the tip. |
tip° |
n. 1 gratuity, baksheesh, pourboire, douceur, lagniappe or |
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lagnappe, present, gift, Colloq little something: That waiter |
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didn't deserve a tip. 2 tip-off, (inside) information, warning, |
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advice, suggestion, clue, hint, pointer, forecast, prediction, |
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Colloq Brit gen: Louie had a tip that the police were coming. |
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Her tip was 'Flapdoodle' to win the fifth race. |
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--v. 3 reward: Why did you tip the barmaid? 4 Usually, tip |
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off. advise, warn, caution, alert, forewarn, notify, let |
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(someone) know, Colloq let (someone) in on: The thieves were |
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tipped off and never arrived. |
tirade |
n. declamation, harangue, diatribe, philippic, outburst, |
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onslaught, screed, jeremiad, denunciation, stream of abuse, |
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invective: He let loose with such a vituperative tirade that I |
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walked out. |
tire |
v. 1 weary, tire out, fatigue, exhaust, wear out, drain, sap, |
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enervate, drain, wear out, debilitate, weaken, Colloq take it |
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out of, fag (out), take it out of: The long climb tired me. 2 |
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bore, exasperate, weary, irk, irritate, annoy, bother: I wish |
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you wouldn't tire me with your accounts of your shopping |
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expeditions. |
tired |
adj. 1 exhausted, tired out, worn out, weary, fatigued, spent, |
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drained, Colloq all in, (dead) beat, knocked out, fagged (out), |
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dog-tired, ready to drop, dead tired, done in, Brit knackered, |
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whacked, US bushed, pooped, wiped out: I was really tired after |
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that ten-hour flight. 2 Usually, tired of. bored with, |
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exasperated by, weary of, irked or irritated or annoyed or |
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bothered by, sick (and tired) of, Colloq fed up (to here) with: |
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Perhaps she's tired of your constant nagging. 3 overworked, |
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overused, clich‚d, stereotyped, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, |
most awful jokes at which his staff would titter politely.
--n. 2 chuckle, snicker, giggle, (suppressed) laughter, chortle, snigger: A titter ran through the audience.
titular adj. nominal, so-called, so-designated, so-styled, self-styled, soi-disant, token, putative, theoretical: He may be the titular head of the company, but his brother is really the boss.
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toast n. 1 tribute, pledge, salutation(s), greeting(s), felicitations, honour, good wishes, appreciation,
remembrance(s), cheers: The speaker proposed a toast to the editor-in-chief. 2 heroine, hero, favourite, darling, idol: Jenny was the toast of the town.
--v. 3 pay tribute to, salute, drink to, honour, greet, congratulate, felicitate: We toasted our fallen comrades.
toilet n. 1 (water) closet, WC, men's (room), ladies' (room), (public) convenience, facility or facilities, washroom, bathroom, lavatory, privy, outhouse, urinal, (in France) pissoir, vespasienne; Nautical head, Chiefly military latrine, Chiefly US rest room, New England necessary, Colloq the Gents, the Ladies('), powder-room, little girls' room, little boys' room,
Brit loo, smallest room (in the house), Military ablutions,
Slang Brit bog, karzy, US and Canadian john, can, crapper: They excused themselves to go to the toilet. 2 Formal or literary grooming, dressing, making up, Brit toilette: She was still at
her toilet when we arrived.
toilsome adj. arduous, laborious, tough, hard, difficult, strenuous, burdensome, onerous, back-breaking, exhausting, fatiguing, tiring, enervating, wearying, draining: After a toilsome ascent we finally reached the first camp.
token n. 1 coin, disc: You need to buy a token to get through the turnstile. 2 symbol, sign, mark, marker, badge, emblem, indication, proof, evidence: The purple trim on a Roman toga was a token of its wearer's elevated status. 3 souvenir,
memento, keepsake, reminder, remembrance, Archaic remembrancer: The miniature Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are tokens of
our trips abroad.
--adj. 4 symbolic, emblematic, representative: The panel was made up of three men and a token woman. 5 superficial, cosmetic, surface, perfunctory, minimal, slight, nominal: We encountered only token resistance when taking over the communications centre.
tolerable adj. 1 bearable, supportable, allowable, endurable, acceptable, sufferable: The heat and humidity are barely tolerable. 2 acceptable, unexceptional, common, fair, common-or-garden variety, middling, ordinary, average, so so, mediocre, adequate, run-of-the-mill, passable, indifferent, Colloq OK or okay, not (too) bad, pretty or fairly good: They serve a tolerable lunch
in the hotel bar.
tolerance n. 1 open-mindedness, toleration, forbearance, broad-mindedness, permissiveness, magnanimity, indulgence, sufferance, patience, freedom from bigotry or prejudice: You must exercise more tolerance in dealing with people who are poorer than you. 2 play, clearance, allowance, variation: The tolerance between these parts is less than a ten-thousandth of a millimetre. 3 toleration, resistance, endurance, imperviousness; immunity, insensitivity: His tolerance of the outrages of stupidity seems limitless. She has a low tolerance for sugar.
tolerant adj. open-minded, objective, forbearing, unprejudiced, unbigoted, dispassionate, broad-minded, indulgent, magnanimous, patient, generous, charitable, catholic, latitudinarian,
permissive, liberal, big-hearted, fair, even-handed, considerate: I am more tolerant of people than of their ideas.
tolerate v. 1 stand (for), allow, permit, bear, suffer, brook, countenance, abide, admit, indulge, concede, sanction, swallow, stomach, turn a blind eye to, Colloq put up with, Brit stick:
The teacher refused to tolerate any more misbehaviour. 2 bear, stand, submit to, endure, weather, take, accept, undergo: Tests show that the product can tolerate considerable wear and tear.
toll° v. 1 ring, peal, chime, strike, sound: The clock tower bell tolled three.
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--n. 2 ring, ringing, peal, pealing, chime, chiming, striking, |
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sound, sounding, tolling, knell: Each toll of the bell marked |
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the death of another victim. |
tollý |
n. 1 charge, fee, dues, assessment, tariff; excise, duty, |
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impost, levy, tribute: New motorways will be funded by means of |
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a toll on traffic using them. 2 loss, penalty, cost, damage(s); |
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exaction: The death toll from the earthquake reached 50,000. |
tomb |
n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, mausoleum, grave, catacomb, |
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burial-chamber, final or last resting-place: Every year his |
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tomb is visited by a mysterious woman in black. |
tombstone n. gravestone, headstone, marker, monument, cenotaph: The tombstones in the military cemetery stood in serried ranks.
tone |
n. 1 sound, note: Odd tones emanated from the electronic |
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music-maker. 2 stress, emphasis, force, accent, intonation, |
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modulation, phrasing, inflection, pitch, tonality, timbre, sound |
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(colour), tone colour or quality, colour or colouring, |
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resonance, sonorousness, sonority, fullness, richness: The tone |
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of his voice is extraordinarily melodic. 3 manner, style, |
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attitude, air, aspect, approach, note, tenor, tone of voice, |
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mode of expression, temper, vein, spirit, air: Do not take that |
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imperious tone with me! 4 tint, tinge, shade, hue, colour, |
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colouring, cast: The fabric has a silvery tone that makes it |
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shimmer. |
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--v. 5 tone down. temper, modify, reduce, moderate, modulate, |
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soften, quiet(en), dampen, dull, subdue, mute, soft-pedal: |
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Please tone down your voice or the neighbours will hear you. 6 |
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tone up. (re)invigorate, tune (up), brighten (up), (re)vitalize, |
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freshen (up), limber up, get into condition or shape: I really |
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have to tone up my body before I put on a swimsuit this summer. |
tongue n. 1 language, speech; dialect, patois,Creole, idiom, parlance, argot, talk, vernacular, fa‡on de parler: The people in that
area speak a strange tongue. 2 (verbal) expression, utterance, voice, articulation: Michael is reluctant to give tongue to his real feelings. 3 hold (one's) tongue. be or remain or keep silent, keep mum, say nothing or nought, not breathe a word, keep (one's) counsel, not say a word, Slang shut up: Hold your
tongue till you are spoken to! 4 slip of the tongue. slip, mistake, gaffe, blunder, faux pas, Freudian slip, Colloq Brit boob: Saying 'bald' when I meant 'bold' was a slip of the tongue. 5 (with (one's)) tongue in (one's) cheek. facetiously, whimsically, ironically, jocularly, jokingly, not seriously, in jest, jestingly, in fun, to be funny, Colloq kiddingly: As he is my older brother, I call him 'Dad' with tongue in cheek, of course.
tongue-lashing
n. scolding, berating, reproof, rebuke, reprimand; (verbal) abuse, castigation, chastisement, vituperation, revilement, Colloq dressing-down, telling-off, talking-to, Brit slating, ticking-off, wigging: For all his efforts to please, he only got a tongue-lashing for interfering.
tongue-tied
adj. speechless, at a loss for words, struck dumb, dumbfounded or dumfounded, mute, inarticulate: I was so nervous when the Prince of Wales spoke to me that I got tongue-tied.
tonic |
n. 1 stimulant, restorative, invigorant, boost, refresher; |
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Obsolete or literary ptisan or tisane, Technical roborant, |
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analeptic, Colloq bracer, pick-me-up, pick-up, shot in the arm, |
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US picker-upper: His father made his money selling snake-oil |
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tonic. |
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--adj. 2 stimulant, stimulating, restorative, invigorating, |
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fortifying, bracing, strengthening, reviving, enlivening, |
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refreshing, Technical analeptic, roborant: Seeing Maddie and |
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Max again had a tonic effect. |
tool |
n. 1 utensil, implement, instrument, device, apparatus, |
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appliance, contrivance, aid, machine, mechanism, gadget, Colloq |
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contraption, gimmick, Chiefly US and Canadian gismo or gizmo: |
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The work would go faster if you had the proper tools. 2 means, |
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way, agency, weapon, medium, vehicle, instrumentality, avenue, |
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road: Education is the tool you need to get anywhere in life. |
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3 puppet, cat's-paw, pawn, dupe, Slang stooge, sucker: I had |
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been used merely as a tool in her ambitious rise to the top. |
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--v. 4 work, carve, cut, embellish, decorate, ornament, dress, |
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shape: This is the shop where the leather is tooled and |
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gold-stamped. |
top |
n. 1 summit, apex, peak, acme, crest, head, pinnacle, vertex, |
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zenith, meridian, crown, culmination, high point, height, |
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apogee: They reached the top of the mountain at dawn. For a |
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change, I should like to be at the top looking down. Samantha |
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remains at the top of her profession. 2 lid, cover, cap, |
covering, stopper, cork: Put the top back on the bottle when you're through.
--v. 3 surpass, better, best, outstrip, exceed, outdo, excel, beat, transcend: It would be impossible to top some of his achievements. 4 surmount, cover, cap, crown, tip; finish, complete, garnish: The entire concoction was topped by a maraschino cherry. 5 trim, crop, lop or cut off, clip, prune, nip, pinch (back): All the trees in this area have been topped to let in more sunlight. 6 scale, climb, ascend, surmount: The party topped Annapurna the next day. 7 top up. fill (up), refresh, refill, replenish, US freshen (up): He asked the barman to top up our drinks.
--adj. 8 best, greatest, foremost, leading, pre-eminent, eminent, first, first-rate, principal, prime, finest, choicest, topmost; excellent, superior, superb, top-drawer, top-grade, top-notch, supreme, peerless, unequalled, incomparable, Colloq crack, ace, A-1 or A-one: Is he the top man in his field? She
is a top economics adviser to the government. 9 uppermost, topmost, highest: The top fruit is the best.
topic |
n. subject(-matter), matter, issue, question, point, thesis, |
theme, text, keynote, field or area of study or of inquiry: We |
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need to decide on a topic for tonight's discussion. |
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topical |
adj. 1 contemporary, current, up to date, timely: Drug |
addiction is certainly a topical subject. 2 local, superficial: |
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For a minor injury we give a topical, not a general anaesthetic. |
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topple |
v. 1 upset, up-end, knock down or over, bring down, fell, |
capsize, collapse: Scores of buildings were toppled by the tornado. 2 bring or throw down, overthrow, defeat, vanquish, overcome, overturn, unseat, oust: The leaders of the coup succeeded in toppling the government in a week. 3 fall (over or down), drop, collapse, keel over, tumble down: Seven guardsmen