top to bottom
From start downward
Top to bottom describes complete coverage from the highest point to the lowest, implying thoroughness: We searched the house top to bottom.
It often suggests systematic examination or transformation: The department needs reorganizing top to bottom.
The phrase can modify nouns: a top-to-bottom review of company policies.
- verticalAt right angles groundward
- descendingMoving downward
- downwardToward a lower position
- head to toeCovering the whole body
- stem to sternNautical term for completely
falling · cascade · hierarchy · pecking order · chain of command · scroll · plunge · drop · peak · summit · base · floor · ceiling · sweep · scan · thorough · complete · exhaustive
- text directionleft-to-right, right-to-left, left to right, right to left, LTR
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
- end-to-end phrasesfront to back, end to end, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, stem to stern
- orderingalphabetical, numerical, chronological, ranking, sorting
- cleaning motionswiping, rubbing, scrubbing, brushing, sweeping
- A to Zbeginning to end, start to finish, full range, everything, the works
top to bottomupward
Toward a higher position
from below · ascending · ground up · from the ground up · upwardly
top to bottompartially
To an incomplete extent
selectively · incompletely · superficially · cursorily · in part
bottom, tops, topped, topping, topmost, topside, topless, bottoms, bottomed