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Definition of Top-up
1. Noun. An amount needed to restore something to its former level.
Generic synonyms: Indefinite Quantity
Definition of Top-up
1. Adjective. That serves as an addition ¹
2. Noun. Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone. ¹
3. Noun. (context: medicine) A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Top-up
Literary usage of Top-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"To allow the lower yards to top up properly, the trusses ... The lower yards top
up better by the burtons alone. DRESSING SHIP WITH FLAGS. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"The same as Top-latch, qv top-up. To make a finish ; thus, when one has eaten
largely of solid food, he is said to top up with pastry and lighter eatables ..."
3. Fixing Health Systems by Don De Savigny (2004)
"... their daily business would have happened without the pro- x vision of a modest
financial top-up in the form of stakeholder a & funds to the districts. ..."
4. The Kedge-anchor, Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Appertaining Tothe Practical by William N. Brady (1882)
"To allow the lower yards to top up properly, the trusses must be slacked; and if
the topsail sheets are of chain and go with a whip, one of them must be ..."
5. The Kedge-anchor; Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1864)
"To allow the lower yards to top up properly, the trusses must be slacked ; and
if the topsail sheets are of chain and go with a whip, one of them must be ..."
6. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"—top. up to, to incite; instigate;as, he put the lad up to mischief. — to p.
through, to cans*- to go through to completion; as, ..."
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