| 单词 | top to bottom |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(from) top to bottom (a) (from) top to bottom (sometimes also from bottom to top): from the upper part to the lower, or from the lower part to the upper. Frequently figurative: entirely, completely; (also) from beginning to end.Cf. from top to toe at Phrases 2a, from top to tail at Phrases 3c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through to the boneOE through and throughc1225 out and outc1300 from top to tail1303 out and inc1390 (from) head to heel (also heels)c1400 (from) head to foot (also feet)c1425 from top to (into, unto) toec1425 to the skin1526 to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530 from first to last1536 up and down1542 whole out1562 to the pith1587 to the back1594 from A to (also until) Z1612 from clew to earing1627 from top to bottom1666 back and edge1673 all hollow1762 (all) to pieces1788 from A to Za1821 to one's (also the) fingertips1825 to one's fingernails1851 from tip to toe1853 down to the ground1859 to the backbone1864 right the way1867 pur sang1893 from the ground up1895 in and out1895 from soda (card) to hock1902 1559 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Troas iii. iii. sig. D.vv Will it all from toppe to bottom rende? a1654 J. Murcot Several Wks. (1657) 62 Pry into every corner, turn every stone, use all means, search from bottom to top to find him. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 10 June (1972) VII. 160 The management..was bad from top to bottom. 1794 W. Anderson Piper of Peebles 13 The house from top to bottom shook. 1862 ‘K. Deene’ Dull Stone House II. ix. 232 I resolved to search the house from top to bottom before I left. 1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love iv. 179 He had studied the process of engraving until he understood it top to bottom. 1998 P. E. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing v. 143 Those who wished to compete in this business provided everything from bottom to top—hardware, peripherals, system and applications software, and service. 2013 L. Billings Five Billion Years Solitude vii. 154 An adjacent whiteboard was filled top to bottom with scribbled shorthand references to stellar flux. top to bottom (b) top to bottom (sometimes also bottom to top): in or into an inverted position; upside down; with the upper part lowermost. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adverb] upa1300 nevelinga1387 kew-kaw1399 overc1425 topsy-turvy1530 arsy-versy1545 upside down1569 overhand1579 bottom-up1598 downside up1603 top to bottom1624 inversely1657 invertedly1657 belly-up1749 topsy versy1767 topsy-turvily1886 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iii. 211 Turned..top to bottome, or bottome to top. 1849 G. Glenny Gardening for Million (ed. 17) 7 Young gardeners are not always sufficiently dexterous to turn every spadeful exactly top to bottom. 1901 Musical Herald May 159/1 Sometimes the string sounds..nearly half a tone higher than the true octave. You then take it off, turn it top to bottom, put it on again..and then again play it. 1914 J. H. Dales Man. Mech. Drawing viii. 85 The bush may be turned bottom to top, when the bearing wears ‘down’. 2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey x. 191 Like a mirror that switches an image not only from right to left, but also top to bottom and back to front. < as lemmas |
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