Off the top of one's head

Definition

top 1 /tɒp/ n ၁။ [ C esp sing ] (က) ထိပ္။ get/ climb to the top of Mount Everest ❍ at the top of the stairs ❍ My office is at the top of the building. ❍ five lines from the top of the page. See also TREETOP (ခ) ထိပ္။ မ်က္ႏွာ။ polish the top of the table/ the table-top. ၂။ [sing] ~ ( of sth ) အထြတ္။ ထိပ္။ rise to/ make it to/ reach the top (ie achieve fame, success, etc) ❍ He's at the top of his profession. ❍ This decision came from the top (ie was made by the most senior people). ❍ Miami finished the season (at the) top of the football league. ❍ We've got a lot of things to do, but packing is top of the list. ၃။ [C] ထိပ္ပိုင္း။ အေပၚပိုင္း။ the top of the milk (ie the layer of cream floating on it) ❍ He took off his pyjama top. ၄။ [C] (ဘူး၊ ပုလင္း၊ ေဖာင္တိန္) အဖံုး။ the top of a felt-tip pen ❍ a bottle with a screw-top ❍ Where's the top for this can of paint? ၅။ [C] ရင္လႊမ္းအက်ႌ စသည္။ I need a top to go with these shorts. ၆။ [U] = TOP GEAR: You shouldn't be in top. ၇။ tops [pl] ( dated infml ) ထိပ္တန္း။ ပေဂး။ Among the sports superstars she's (the) tops. ၈။ [sing] (အေမရိကန္ ေဘ့စ္ေဘာတြင္) ႐ိုက္လွည့္ ပထမပိုင္း။ ၉။ [C usu pl ] ဥျမစ္မွထြက္ေသာအရြက္စု။ We give the carrot tops to the rabbit. adj ထိပ္။ ထိပ္ဆံုး။ ထိပ္တန္း။ a room on the top floor ❍ one of the world's top scientists ❍ top jobs/ people ❍ travelling at top speed. v ( -pp- ) ၁။ (က) သာလြန္သည္။ Exports have topped the £80 million mark. (ခ) အထြတ္အထိပ္ေရာက္သည္။ His latest book is currently topping the best-sellers list. ၂။ ဖံုးထားသည္။ အထြတ္တင္ ထားသည္။ ice-cream topped with chocolate sauce ❍ a roof topped with two strange-looking chimneys. ၃။ အၫြန္႔၊ အညႇာ စသည္ကို ဆိတ္သည္၊ ဖယ္သည္။ top and tail (ie remove the ends from) gooseberries. ၄။ (ေဂါက္သီး)ထိပ္ထုမိသည္။ I topped it badly and it only went a few yards. ၅။ ( sl ) ႀကိဳးဆြဲခ်ေသသည္။ ❏ at the top of the tree [ IDM ] အထြတ္အထိပ္။ ❏ at the top of one's voice [ IDM ] ငယ္သံပါေအာင္။ cheering/ shouting/ screaming at the top (s) of their voices. ❏ come out on top [ IDM ] အေပၚစီးရသည္။ In any argument he always tends to come out on top. ❏ from top to bottom [ IDM ] ေျခဆံုးေခါင္းဆံုး။ အိတ္သြန္ ဖာေမွာက္။ We searched the house from top to bottom. ❏ from top to toe [ IDM ] ေျခဆံုးေခါင္းဆံုး။ dressed in green from top to toe. ❏ get on top of sb [ IDM ] ပိေနသည္။ All this extra work is getting on top of him. ❏ get on top of sth [ IDM ] ႏိုင္ႏိုင္နင္းနင္းကိုင္သည္။ How will I ever get on top of all this work? ❏ off the top of one's head [ IDM ]( infml ) ႐ုတ္တရက္။ ျဗဳန္းစား (သို႔) ထင္ရာျမင္ရာ။ ေပါက္ကရ။ I can't remember the name off the top of my head. ❍ He's talking off the top of his head (ie What he says may not be correct). ❏ on top [ IDM ] ၁။ အေပၚ။ ထိပ္။ a cake with icing on top ❍ Stand on top and look down. ❍ He's going bald on top (ie of his head). ၂။ ထိပ္က။ ေရွ႕က။ She was on top throughout the match. ၃။ ထပ္ေလာင္း၍။ He borrowed £50 and asked me to lend him my car on top. ❏ on top of sth/ sb [ IDM ] ၁။ အထက္တြင္။ အေပၚ။ Put this magazine on top of the others. ❍ Many people were crushed when the building collapsed on top of them. ၂။ အျပင္။ He gets commission on top of his salary. ၃။ ထပ္လုနီးပါး။ There is no privacy when houses are built on top of each other like that. ❏ (be/feel) on top of the world [ IDM ] ဇမၺဴ တစ္လူ ထင္သည္။ ❏ over the top ( abbr OTT) [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) လြန္လြန္းေသာ။ The ending of the film is completely over the top. ❍ an over-the-top performance. ❏ take sth from the top [ IDM ]( infml ) တစ္ကျပန္စသည္။ OK, everybody, let's take it from the top. ❏ top brass n [Gp] ( infml ) (အထူးသျဖင့္တပ္မွ) ထိပ္တန္း အရာရိွႀကီးမ်ား။ All the top brass attended the ceremony. ❏ top-class adj ထိပ္တန္း။ ပထမတန္း။ a top-class performance. ❏ top dog n (usu sing ) ( infml ) ႏိုင္ၾကက္။ She's determined to show that she's still (the) top dog in this event. ❏ the top drawer n [sing] ( Brit ) ထိပ္တန္း။ ပထမတန္း။ She's out of the top drawer. top drawer adj ❏ top-dressing n [C,U ] အေပၚယံႀကဲပက္ထားေသာ ႏြားေခ်း၊ ေျမဩဇာ စသည္။ ❏ top-flight adj ထိပ္တန္း။ ပထမတန္း။ a top-flight hotel/diplomat. ❏ top gear n [U] အျမင့္ဆံုးဂီယာ။ change up into top gear. ❏ top hat n (also infml topper ) အခမ္းအနားဝတ္စံု ႏွင့္ ေဆာင္းရေသာ ေယာက်္ားေဆာင္း ဦးထုပ္ျမင့္။ (ပြဲတက္) ဦးထုပ္ျမင့္။ ❍ HAT ❏ top-heavy adj ၁။ ေခါင္းႀကီးကိုယ္ေသး။ ၂။ အိမ္ေျခတစ္ရာ ျပည္စိုးအစိတ္။ ထိပ္ပိုင္း ေလးေသာ။ The civil service has become top-heavy. ❏ topless adj (က) အေပၚပိုင္းဗလာက်င္းထားေသာ။ a topless waitress. (ခ) ရင္သားေဖာ္ေသာ။ a topless dress. adv အေပၚပိုင္းဗလာက်င္းလ်က္။ sunbathe/go topless. ❏ topmost / 'tɒpmǝƱst / adj ထိပ္ဆံုး။ အေပၚဆံုး။ အျမင့္ဆံုး။ the topmost branches of the tree. ❏ top-notch adj ( infml ) ပထမတန္း။ a top-notch lawyer. ❏ top-of-the-range adj ေဈးအႀကီးဆံုး။ a top-of-the-range camcorder. ❏ top-ranking adj ထိပ္သီး။ ထိပ္တန္း။ top-ranking police officers. ❏ top secret adj ထိပ္တန္းလွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္။ a file of top secret information ❍ a top-secret mission. ❏ the top ten n [pl] (တစ္ပတ္အတြင္းလူႀကိဳက္ အမ်ားဆံုး ဓာတ္ျပားသီခ်င္းအစဥ္၌) ထိပ္ဆံုးဆယ္ေနရာ။ She's a great singer, but her records never get into/make the top ten. ❏ top sth off (with sth) [ PHRV ] ပိတ္လိုက္သည္။ The meal was topped off with a delicious chocolate mousse. ❏ top (sth) out [ PHRV ] အထြတ္တင္သည္။ ❏ top (sth) up [ PHRV ] ျပည့္ေအာင္ျဖည့္သည္။ top up with petrol/oil ❍ top up a car battery ❍ top up a mortgage (ie borrow more) ❍ ( infml ) Let me top you up (ie refill your glass). ❏ topping n [C,U] မုန္႔၊ စားဖြယ္တြင္ ျဖဴးထား၊ ေလာင္းထား ေသာ အရာ။ a range of fruit-flavoured toppings ❍ You pay £ 3 for the basic pizza and 75p for each extra topping. ❏ top-up n ျပည့္ေအာင္ထပ္ျဖည့္ျခင္း။ a top-up loan from the bank ❍ Who's ready for a top-up (ie another drink)? ❏ up top [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) စဥ္းစားဉာဏ္။ ေခါင္း။ He hasn't got very much up top (ie He isn't very intelligent). top 2 /tɒp/ n ဂ်င္။

Examples

1. We could see mountain tops in the distance.
2. [at the top of something] : I left my purse at the top of the stairs.
3. [the very top] : Our cat had climbed to the very top of the tree.
4. [reach the top] : We reached the top of the hill and looked down.
5. [on top (of something)] : He sprinkled sugar on top of the cake.
6. You need to wipe down the table tops.
7. She started as an administrative assistant and worked her way to the top.
8. [at the top of your profession] : He was a man of forty-five
9. at the top of his profession.
10. I’ve lost the top off my shampoo bottle.
11. This shop stocks a whole range of tops.
12. His pyjama top
13. They’ve bought a new house at the top of our road.
14. [take it from the top] : Let’s take it from the top of the second act.