English English Dictionary

leading in English:

1. 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

English word "leading"(top) occurs in sets:

informal, formal

2. the most important or successful in a particular area

3. major

major problem

It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.

Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.

Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.

The major religions in China are Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.

Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.

The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

Capital investments planned by major Japanese businesses for this year have been revised upward in view of an improving economic outlook.

Japanese companies have set up factories on every continent, and Japanese banks help finance many of the world's major economic programs.

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.

It would be a great convenience if English were to become everybody's major language.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.