dominate, command, overlook, overtop
(verb) look down on; “The villa dominates the town”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
overtop (third-person singular simple present overtops, present participle overtopping, simple past and past participle overtopped)
(transitive) To be higher than; to rise over the top of. [from 16th c.]
(transitive) To place too many toppings on.
overtop (comparative more overtop, superlative most overtop)
(now, chiefly, North America) Over the top. [from 18th c.]
• overpot
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*top", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overtopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Overtopping.]
1. To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. "To old Pelion." Shak.
2. To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton.
3. To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. Becon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
