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UPPERMOST
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or nearest to the top
Example:
on the topmost step
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Similar:
top (situated at the top or highest position)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In or into the highest position
Example:
the blade turned uppermost
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Sense 2
Meaning:
In or into the most prominent position, as in the mind
Example:
say what comes uppermost
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Context examples:
The uppermost part of the prostate gland adjacent to the bladder wall.
(Base of the Prostate, NCI Thesaurus)
Previous research has shown that GSLs are common in the cells that comprise the uppermost layer of the skin, and also in cells involved in pigmentation of the eyes, skin and hair.
(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in me seemed to come uppermost.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rounded, uppermost part of the lung, located above the level of the sternal end of the first rib.
(Apex of the Lung, NCI Thesaurus)
The uppermost portion of the brainstem located between the pons and the diencephalon.
(Mesencephalon, NCI Thesaurus)
Yet he continued to fear, and he stood on guard, expectant of unguessed evil, alternately suffering and enjoying as one feeling or the other came uppermost and swayed him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As the oceans churn and cold plumes snake around, ice in the uppermost ocean layer, called "Ice III," could form in the seawater.
(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)
Strangling, suffocating, sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the bank.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity from the beach; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clinging to the rigging of the remaining mast; uppermost, the active figure with the curling hair.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The findings suggest that conditions in the ice shelf cavity are more closely coupled with the surface ocean and atmosphere than previously assumed, implying that melt rates near the ice front will respond quickly to changes in the uppermost layer of the ocean.
(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
