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Definition: Top Off

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Verb

1. Finish or complete, esp. with some decisive action; "he capped off the meeting with a radical proposal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Top Off

Synonym: cap off (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Top Off

English words defined with "top off": coverpinchTo top off, top. (references)
Etymologies containing "top off": Decucuminated. (references)

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Modern Usage: Top Off

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You see the gear lever here? Now, if you take the top off, you will find a little red button. (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Clever

Sleeping on the job: Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Top Off

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At the top Off of EXPLORER Photo sheet No. 4 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lake Survey hydrographic survey skiff with top off for the summer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expression: Top Off

Expression using "top off": To top off. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Top Off

Language Translations for "top off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

завършвам успешно, завършвам висока сграда, приключвам (conclude, determine, end, end off, get over, sign off, wind up, work out), покривам висока сграда. (various references)

   

French

  

panacher, clouer le sapin. (various references)

   

German

  

abrunden (complement, round down, round off, roundoff, to round off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμπληρώνω (complement, complete, eke out, fill in, fill out, supplement), ολοκληρώνω (accomplish, complete, consummate, integrate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"שלים (accomplish, achieve, carry through, come to terms, complete, finish, perfect, round off, submit, supplement, top up), לסים (close, conclude, end, finish, terminate, wind up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megtámad (assail, assault, attack, combat, impugn, to advance against, to assail, to assault, to contest, to corrode, to impugn, to raid, to set about, to top off, to visit, to wade in), megkoronáz (coronate, crown, enthrone, to crown, to enthrone, to top, to top off, top up), leüt (knock down, knock off, strike down, strike off, to fell, to knock down, to knock off, to spike, to top off), felteszi a koronát vmire (to top off), betetőz vmit (to top off, to top up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

concludere (abstract, break up, clinch, close, complete, conclude, deduce, do, end up, finalize, finish, gather, induce, infer, make, make a contract, put through, tie up, wrap up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

optay offay

   

Spanish

  

terminar con (do away with, eat up, get off, kill, leak, wind up), venir en (call in, come around, jockey, pop in, touch down), rematar (auction, bind, come, kill off, knock down, top), llevar a cabo (accomplish, achieve, bring off, bring to pass, carry out, carry through, come, effect, execute, go through with, implement, make good, prosecute, pull through, push through, put through, realize, see it through, see out, see through, transact), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), finalizar (cap, close, closure, come, conclude, eat up, expire, finalize, hole, knock off, leave off, let up, terminate, throw over, wind up), concluir (accomodate, close, come, complete, conclude, dispose of, end, finish, infer, lock, terminate, tie up, wind up), completar (come, complete, consummate, follow up, full, make up, piece out, reman, top up), cesar (break, break off, cap, cease, close up, come, cut off, delete, disable, eat up, end, expire, follow up, get over, get through, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, liquidate, stop, surcease, terminate, throw over, wind up, zip, zip up), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, use up, wash out, waste, wind up, work out). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

son vermek (adjourn, call a halt, call off, cease, chuck, close, cut off, discontinue, end, end off, fetch up, finish, make an end of, put a stop to, put an end to, raise, shut down on, shut down upon, sign off, stash, stop, terminate, wind up, wipe up, wrap up), son rötuşunu yapmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

оздоблювати (decorate, fettle, ornament), закінчувати (close, complete, conclude, finalize, round off), дозаправляти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Top Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-f-o-o-p-t"

-2 letters: foot, pfft, poof, toff.

-3 letters: fop, off, oft, oot, opt, pot, too, top.

-4 letters: of, op, to.

 Words containing the letters "f-f-o-o-p-t"
 

+3 letters: coffeepot.

 

+4 letters: coffeepots.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Top Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 70      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110000 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#112 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0070      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481822497272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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