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TOPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topped mean? 

TOPPED (adjective)
  The adjective TOPPED has 1 sense:

1. having a top of a specified characterplay

  Familiarity information: TOPPED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOPPED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a top of a specified character

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)


 Context examples 


The wave over-topped the Ghost, and I gazed sheer up and into it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A red or violaceous flat-topped, papular eruption that is induced by exposure to a variety of medications or environmental agents.

(Lichenoid Drug Eruption, NCI Thesaurus)

Those are just what the new research has detected at some flat-topped mountains in the Sisyphi Montes region examined with the spacecraft's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking upwards, we could see no sign of movement above us amidst the green jungle which topped the cliff.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And on the last night of the second week they topped White Pass and dropped down the sea slope with the lights of Skaguay and of the shipping at their feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Half a mile further, where the road topped a hill, they looked back, and the Lady Mary on her white palfrey was still where they had left her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Henry did not reply, but munched on in silence, until, the meal finished, he topped it with a final cup of coffee.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The seafloor system is an anchored spar buoy topped by a high precision Global Positioning System.

(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)



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