different between mind vs top

English

Etymology

From Middle English minde, münde, ?emünde, from Old English mynd, ?emynd (“memory, remembrance; memorial, record; act of commemoration; thought, purpose; consciousness, mind, intellect”), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic ???????????????????? (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin m?ns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit ???? (mánas), Ancient Greek ????? (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?nd, IPA^(key): /ma?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Homophone: mined

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. The ability for rational thought.
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     “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. The ability to be aware of things.

3. The ability to remember things.

4. The ability to focus the thoughts.

5. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.

6. Judgment, opinion, or view.

7. Desire, inclination, or intention.
8. A healthy mental state.

9. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

   • 1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, p.19:

     The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
10. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.

    a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind

Synonyms

• (ability for rational thought): brain(s), head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit; See also Thesaurus:intelligence
• (ability to be aware of things): awareness, consciousness, sentience; See also Thesaurus:awareness
• (ability to remember things): memory, recollection; See also Thesaurus:recollection
• (ability to focus the thoughts): attention, concentration, focus
• (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities): genius, intellectual, thinker; See also Thesaurus:genius
• (judgment, opinion, or view): judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view; See also Thesaurus:judgement
• (desire, inclination, or intention): desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood; See also Thesaurus:desire or Thesaurus:intention
• (healthy mental state): sanity; See also Thesaurus:sanity
• (process of): cognition, learning

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mind (third-person singular simple present minds, present participle minding, simple past and past participle minded)

1. To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
   • 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:

     Mind to-morrow's early meeting!

2. (now regional) To remember. [from 14th c.]
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26:

     The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.

3. (Obsolete or dialectical) To remind; put one's mind on.
   • 1599, William Shakespear, Henry V, Act IV, sc 3:

     Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.

   • c. 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 2:

     Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.

   • 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, "Of True and False Ideas"

     I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.

   • He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

4. To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
   • ca. 1610–11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. 2:

     Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.

5. To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
   • 1611, King James Translators, Romans 12:16:

     Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

   • 1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]:

     It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.

6. (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]

   Mind you don't knock that glass over.

7. (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed. [from 15th c.]

   You should mind your own business.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I Scene i:

     My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

   • 1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710:

     Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.

   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, page 84:

     Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.

8. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]

   Would you mind my bag for me?

9. To be careful about. [from 18th c.]
   • 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, ?ISBN, page xv:

     Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.

10. (now Obsolete except in Dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, sc. 1

      I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

      […] and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.

11. (Britain, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.

    I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.

12. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. [from 16th c.]

    I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.

    Do you mind if I smoke?

Synonyms

• (remember): See also Thesaurus:remember
• (dislike): See also Thesaurus:dislike
• (pay attention to): heed; See also Thesaurus:pay attention
• (look after): See also Thesaurus:care

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Verb

mind

1. imperative of minde

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

mind

1. partitive singular of mina

Hungarian

Etymology

Presumably from mi? (“what?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mind]
• Rhymes: -ind

Pronoun

mind

1. all of it, all of them, each of them (grammatically singular)

   Synonyms: mindegyikük, mindegyik, az összes

Declension

Adverb

mind (not comparable)

1. with everyone, all (usually of persons)

   Synonyms: mindnyájan, mindannyian

2. (formal) increasingly (used with comparative form)

   Synonym: egyre

3. (up) until…, up to… (used with -ig; not (until) sooner than a given point in time)

   Synonym: egészen

   (Note: Most other phrases with this meaning are written without a space: mindaddig, mindeddig, mindmáig, mindmostanáig, mindvégig)

Derived terms

Conjunction

mind

1. (formal) both... and..., as well as

   Synonym: is

References

Further reading

• (pronoun & adverb): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (conjunction): mind in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mendus (“mark, sign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?in?d/

Noun

mind n (nominative plural mind)

1. A symbol indicating honour or rank; a crown, insignia, emblem

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: mionn
• Scottish Gaelic: mionn

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mind, minn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

From Old English ?emynd, from Proto-Germanic *gamundiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?end/

Noun

mind (plural minds)

1. memory, recollection.
2. mind.

Verb

mind (third-person singular present minds, present participle mindin, past mindit, past participle mindit)

1. To remember.
2. To remind.
3. To mind, care.

English

Etymology

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English top (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown origin.

Cognate with Scots tap (“top”), North Frisian top, tap, tup (“top”), Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), West Frisian top (“top”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), Low German Topp (“top”), German Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Icelandic toppur (“top”).

The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?p/, [t???p]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?p/, [t???p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

top (countable and uncountable, plural tops)

1. The highest or uppermost part of something.

   Synonyms: peak, summit, overside

   Antonyms: bottom, base, underside

   1. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.

   2. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.

      Synonym: (of a page) head

      Antonym: (of a page) foot

   3. A lid, cap or cover of a container.

      Synonyms: cap, coverlid

   4. A garment worn to cover the torso.

      Antonym: bottom

   5. A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
   6. (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
   7. (archaic) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
2. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.

3. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
   1. (archaic) The chief person; the most prominent one.
   2. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
4. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

   Synonyms: (usually male) dom, (female) domme

   Antonyms: bottom, sub

5. (gay slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

6. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) Oral stimulation to the male member, a blowjob.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex
7. (particle physics) A top quark.

   Hypernym: flavor

8. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
   • June 18 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     The top of my own ambition is to contribute to that work.

9. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
10. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
11. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
12. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.

    • Hee was upon the top of his marriage with Magdalaine.

13. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

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14. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
15. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
16. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
17. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

top (third-person singular simple present tops, present participle topping, simple past and past participle topped)

1. To cover on the top or with a top.

2. To excel, to surpass, to beat.

   Synonyms: beat, better, best, exceed; see also Thesaurus:exceed
3. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[9]", BBC Sport, 26 December 2013:

     Liverpool topped the table on Christmas Day and, after Arsenal's win at West Ham earlier on Boxing Day, would have returned to the top had they been the first team to beat City at home this season.

4. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
5. (Britain, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.

7. (Britain, slang, rare) To murder.

   Synonyms: kill, murder, slaughter, slay; see also Thesaurus:kill

8. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

9. (gay slang, transitive, intransitive) To anally penetrate in gay sex.
10. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
    • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology

      lofty and topping mountains

    • , Book II, Chapter XXI

      influenced by that topping uneasiness

11. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
12. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
13. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.

14. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
15. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
16. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
17. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
18. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
19. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

Derived terms

• (kill): top oneself
• untopped

Translations

Adjective

top (not comparable)

1. Situated on the top of something.
2. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.

3. (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

Related terms

Translations

Adverb

top (not comparable)

1. Rated first.

Synonyms

• first

See also

• topple

Anagrams

• OPT, OPt, OTP, PTO, TPO, oPt, opt, opt., pot

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (top).

Noun

top m (indefinite plural tope, definite singular topi, definite plural topet)

1. ball
2. (in the plural) slang for testicles

Inflection

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Cognate with Turkish top.

Noun

top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar)

1. ball
2. cannon
3. (chess) rook

Declension

Derived terms

• topçu (“cannoneer”)

See also

Baure

Noun

top

1. fog

Crimean Tatar

Noun

top

1. ball
2. lump
3. cannon

Declension

Derived terms

• babaytop
• topla?uv
• topçu
• top qunda??

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[11], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?top]

Verb

top

1. second-person singular imperative of topit

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse toppr, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz.

Noun

top c (singular definite toppen, plural indefinite toppe)

1. summit, peak
2. hairpiece
3. top (uppermost part, lid, cap, cover, garment worn to cover the torso, child’s spinning toy)

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch top, topp, from Old Dutch and Frankish *topp, *top, from Proto-West Germanic *topp.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Adjective

top

1. (colloquial) great, very good

Derived terms

• (prefix): top-

Noun

top m (plural toppen, diminutive topje n)

1. top (uppermost part)
2. (figuratively) apex
3. summit, peak (high point of a mountain)
4. summit, assembly
5. top (piece of women's clothing)

Antonyms

• bodem

Derived terms

• bergtop
• vingertop
• toppunt

Verb

top

1. (denominal) first-person singular present indicative of toppen

Anagrams

• pot

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English top.

Pronunciation

Noun

top m (plural tops)

1. top; shirt or garment covering the upper body
2. a signalling sound; beep

Adjective

top (feminine singular toppe, masculine plural tops, feminine plural toppes)

1. top; best; highest in rank; maximum
2. excellent; brilliant
3. (LGBT, slang) top (dominant in role)

Synonyms

• (dominant): actif

Antonyms

• bottom

Adverb

top

1. at most; maximum

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English top.

Noun

top m (invariable)

1. (woman's dressing, garment) top

Latvian

Verb

top

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of tapt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of tapt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of tapt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of tapt

Middle English

Alternative forms

• toppe, topp, tope, toop

Etymology

From Old English topp, toppa, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/, /t??p/

Noun

top (plural toppes)

1. The summit or top of something, especially a vertical object:
   1. The peak of a mountain or other landform.
   2. The roof or ceil of a house; the top of a fence.
   3. A lid or cap; a removable top or topping.
   4. The head, especially its top or the hair on its top.
2. A small deck at the dop of a ship's sails.
3. A cluster or bunch of fibres; a tassel.
4. A top or whirligig (spinning toy)
5. The start or introduction of something.
6. (rare) The tip or end of something; that which something terminates in.

Derived terms

• toppen
• toppyng

Descendants

• English: top
  • ? French: top
  • ? German: Top
  • ? Vietnamese: t?p
• Scots: tap

References

• “top, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.
• “top, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Mopan Maya

Adverb

top

1. very

References

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

top f

1. ball (object, generally spherical, used for playing games)
2. cannon

Old French

Alternative forms

• tup, tupe, tope, toup

Etymology

From Frankish *topp.

Noun

top m (oblique plural tos, nominative singular tos, nominative plural top)

1. hair on top of one's head, forelock
2. top, highest point
3. tuft of flax placed on distaff
4. top (ship)

Descendants

• ? Galician: tope
• ? Spanish: tope
• ? Portuguese: topo
• ? Old French: toupet, topet
  • ? Old Portuguese: topete
    • Galician: topete
    • Portuguese: topete
  • Middle French: toupet
    • French: toupet (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: toupet, tupé
  • ? Middle English: topet
• ?? Old French: topoie, toupie, tourpe, tourpie
  • Middle French: toupie
    • French: toupie

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (top)
• tup on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/

Etymology 1

From English top, from Middle English top, toppe, from Old English top (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), from Proto-Indo-European *dumb- (“tail, rod, staff, penis”).

Noun

top m inan

1. (nautical) nautical top (the upper end of a mast)
2. top (garment worn to cover the torso)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

top

1. second-person singular imperative of topi?

Further reading

• top in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English top.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?.pi/
• Homophone: tope

Adjective

top (invariable, comparable)

1. (slang) cool, awesome
2. (slang) top, excellent, high-quality

   Synonym: top de linha

Derived terms

• topzeira

Noun

top m (plural tops)

1. top (garment worn to cover the torso)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (top).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tôp/

Noun

t?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. cannon
2. (chess) rook

Declension

See also

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *t?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Adjective

t?p (comparative b?lj t?p, superlative n?jbolj t?p)

1. blunt

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (top).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

t?p m inan

1. cannon

Inflection

Further reading

• “top”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English top.

Noun

top m (plural tops)

1. top (first positions of a ranking)
2. top (female clothing)

Adjective

top (plural tops)

1. (proscribed) top (situated on the top of something)

   Synonym: mejor

2. (proscribed) top (best; of the highest quality or rank)

   Synonym: el mejor

3. (proscribed) top (very good, of high quality)

   Synonym: muy bueno

References

• “top” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, primera edición, Real Academia Española, 2005.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (top), from Proto-Turkic *top (“round thing”).

Noun

top (definite accusative topu, plural toplar)

1. ball
2. cannon
3. (slang) gay

Declension

References

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (tópos, “place”).

Noun

top (nominative plural tops)

1. place

Declension

Related terms

• topäd