Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

topo in English:

1. top top


This takes top priority.
Selena Gomez's second album hit Billboard Magazine's top two hundred albums chart at number four.
The children from the village would often gather up on top of the hill and from there watched the trucks and automobiles going back and forth to the city.
Be like the palm tree - the more it gets pressed by the cliff, the quicker and more beautiful its rise to the top.
I don't mind since I'm used to it, but the first guy who thought about making a hearse with a golden roof on top of it, he must have had quite bad taste.
Don't give in to despair just because you didn't get into the college that was at the top of your wish-list.
When my dad found out that I've been going out with Nimrod Nick, he blew his top.
I had a nagging feeling that the atmosphere resembled somebody and, now that you mention it, yes, you're right. Certainly ZZ TOP had this kind of feel.
No sooner had we finished working on one tough problem than the president sent us yet another straight from the top.
No matter how you look at it, Satoshi Kon was a top class director and mangaka.
I could not buy the 3 sen stamp to put on the letter, so it ended up staying for many days on top of the tokonoma.
On the way out I said to my waitress, "Be careful, Sue. There's something funny about the glasses you gave me - they're filled in on the top, and there's a hole on the bottom!"
I like you and that's why I'm not gonna put you to bed with a shovel this time. But if you squeal to the cops once more I'm gonna top you.
[tɒp] top

2. superior superior


superior quality
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.
On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."
We went for a scenic drive as far as Lake Superior.
Soft wool is more expensive than coarse wool and both are superior to synthetics made of nylon.
He was ordered, by his superior, to write up a proposal for a new product before the day is out.
Some of these very clever robots are already surpassing us. To surpass means to have abilities superior to our own.
Your laptop is far superior to mine - mine's already 6 years old. It's a superior wine that is worth any price.
The disciplinary superior may renounce inflicting the punishment if the degree of guilt or the degree of the harmfulness of the disciplinary offence is not significant in light of the service.
Our superior is a natural leader and team builder. He keeps our unit motivated and committed to the work
She reported the problems to her superior but she was told to keep quiet.
A person who is higher in rank or position than others, something better than average or better than others of the same type: I will pass your complaint on to my superiors. Some people think acoustic recordings are superior to digital ones.
This study showed that Peg Intron was superior to interferon alfa-2b (Table 5)
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

English word "topo"(superior) occurs in sets:

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