Atop

Definition: Atop

Atop

Adverb

1. On, to, or at the top.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "atop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Summit

Adverb: atop, at the top of the tree.

Crosswords: Atop

Cebuano (roof), Indonesian (belch, burp).

A journey that will bring me to a strange and dark place, to the edge of the sea high atop Widows' Hill--a house called Collinwood (Dark Shadows; writing credit: Seong-ho Park)

Atop of the World in Motion (1912)

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Books

• Alone Atop the Mountain. (reference)

• Atop an Underwood (reference)

• Atop the Urban Hierarchy (reference)

• Cause, Experiment, and Science: A Galilean Dialogue, Incorporating a New English Translation of Galileo's Bodies That Stay Atop Water, or Move in It (reference)

• Desire & Ice: Searching for Perspective Atop Denali (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• High Atop the Giving Tree (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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ITSO Weather Satellite Atop a Delta Rocket. Credit: NASA.

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from atop NOAA's Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Office at the Presidio, San Francisco. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A redwing blackbird perching atop reeds in a Patuxent river marsh. Arrow arum plants are in the foreground. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries.

North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve. A Black Skimmer sits atop its nest in sand along the Outer Banks. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Lead Electronics Technician Bob Blackburn, Assistant Survey Tech Maureen Goff, and Assistant Survey Tech Scot Warrender at work setting up a GPS station atop Sawyer Island. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

GOES-D sits atop Delta 152 Launch Vehicle moments before ignition and liftoff. GOES-D became GOES 4 when placed in orbit. This satellite was placed in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the nation of Colombia in South America. Credit: NOAA in Space.

GOES-E sits atop Delta 154 at Launch Complex 17. GOES-E was designated GOES 5 after placing into orbit. Credit: NOAA in Space.

The Maui Space Surveillance Complex, located atop Mt. Haleakala, Hawaii, changed hands Oct. 1, from Air Force Space Command to Air Force Material Command. Air Force officials also announced the complex's 3.67-meter telescope, the worlds largest for taking.

Chicks atop a picture of a genetic map of a chicken. The chicken genome has 39 pairs of chromosomes, whereas the human genome contains 23 pairs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb..

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Human Rights

Brazil

Television cameras showed riot police firing at unarmed prisoners from atop a wall, leading human rights groups to accuse police of the unprovoked killing of at least two prisoners. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "atop": ad atop ♦ atop of. Additional references.

Albanian

në majë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏في اعلى, ‏فوق (above, across, before, on, on top of, onto, over, overhead, up, upon, upstairs). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отгоре на (above), на върха (ahorse). (various references)

Chinese 

在上面. (various references)

Dutch

kribbaak (mark atop a groyne (or training wall)). (various references)

Farsi 

درروی (On), دربالای , دربالا (Above, Over), بطرف بالا (Upgrade, Upward(S)), بالا (Aloft, Ascendency, Overhead, Up, Upside). (various references)

French

au sommet, en haut. (various references)

German

obenauf (on top). (various references)

Greek 

κορυφή (acknowledger, apex, climax, crest, crown, mountaintop, needle, peak, ridge, summit, tiptop, top, vertex), στην κορυφή, πάνω σε (down on, on, onto, upon), εισ το άνω μέροσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעל (above, deception, embezzlement, fraud, on, on top of, supra, treachery, upward of), על גבי (on, on top of, onto). (various references)

Hungarian

tetején (on top). (various references)

Indonesian

di puncak. (various references)

Italian

sopra (above, across, at the top, hyper, o'er, of, on, on to, on top, on top of, over, top, up, upon, via), in cima. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

置き土 (earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おきつち (earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop). (various references)

Manx

er-mullagh, er-baare. (various references)

Pig Latin

atopay.(various references)

Portuguese

além de (across, also, apart from, around, aside from, besides, beyond, in addition to, outside, over), superior (above, ascendant, better, bettor, chief, choice, classy, crack-a-jack, gentle, high, master, olympian, over, pre-eminent, premium, select, superior, supreme, towering, transcendent, upper), sobre (about, above, across, at par, of, on, on top of, over, over-, super, to, up, upon), em cima de (about, on, on top of, upon), em cima (above, aloft, on the top, overhead, thereon, up, upon, upstairs), de cima (upper). (various references)

Romanian

sus (above, aloft, over, overhead, up), în vârf (uppermost), în partea de sus a. (various references)

Russian 

сверху (from above, from the top, overhand, superiorly), наверху (above, aloft, atop of, on top, overhead, up, upstairs), на верху, поверх. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

na vrhu, gore (above, aloft, overhead, supra, up, upstairs, worse). (various references)

Spanish

sobre (about, above, concerning, envelope, o'er, on, on top of, onto, packet, upon), encima de (above, besides, in addition to, on, on top of, onto, over, over and above, up, upon), encima (above, at top of, besides, on top, over, over it, overhead, uppermost). (various references)

Swedish

i toppen, överst (at the top, topmost, tops, uppermost). (various references)

Thai

บนยอด. (various references)

Turkish

tepede (at the top, overhead), daha iyi (ahead of, atop of, better, out, preferable), üstte, üstüne (atop of, nothing like, onto, over), üstünde (about, above, atop of, on, over, super-, supra-, sur-, whereon), üstün (above, ascendant, ascendent, atop of, choice, distingue, excellent, extra, golden, high, hyper-, over, predominant, pre-eminencent, preponderant, super, super-, super-duty, superior, supra-, transcendent, unsurpassed, up). (various references)

Ukrainian

нагорі (above, over, overhead, up, uppermost, upstairs), наверху, над (above, aloft, beyond, o'er, on, over), поверх (floor, storey). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "atop": atopic, atopies, atopy. (additional references)

Words containing "atop": catoptric, ceratopsian, ceratopsians, chromatophore, chromatophores, dermatophyte, dermatophytes, hematophagous, hematopoieses, hematopoiesis, hematopoietic, hematoporphyrin, hematoporphyrins, hepatopancreas, hepatopancreases, keratoplasties, keratoplasty, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeias, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeically, onomatopoetic, onomatopoetically, phreatophyte, phreatophytes, phreatophytic, pneumatophore, pneumatophores, polychromatophilia, polychromatophilias, polychromatophilic, somatopleure, somatopleures, spermatophore, spermatophores, spermatophyte, spermatophytes, spermatophytic, steatopygia, steatopygias, steatopygic, steatopygous, stomatopod, stomatopods, triceratops, triceratopses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Atop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abop, acop, adop, afto, agop, ahto, alop, anop, anoup, antop, aop, aot, apop, Arop, arope, artep, asop, astop, atemp, ateo, Atepo, Atikpo, atip, atipt, Atko, ato, atoa, atoe, atog, atoh, atol, aton, atoo, atope, atops, ator, atos, atou, atoup, atow, atox, atoy, atoz, Atpc, atpl, Atropa, Atrox, attap, Attoh, Attow, atu, atub, atui, Atul, atuz, Atyp, avto, Etap, etup, latop, ratop, tapo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apt, oat, opt, pat, pot, tao, tap, top.

-2 letters: at, op, pa, ta, to.

+1 letter: adopt, aport, atopy, coapt, panto, patio, topaz.

+2 letters: adopts, atopic, capote, captor, cartop, coapts, cowpat, dopant, laptop, opiate, optima, pantos, parrot, parton, pastor, pathos, patios, patois, patrol, patron, payout, pelota, portal, postal, potage, potash, potato, potman, protea, ragtop, raptor, sapota, sapote, tampon, tapalo, tarpon, teapot, teapoy, teopan, toecap, utopia.

+3 letters: adaptor, adopted, adoptee, adopter, airport, airpost, antipot, aphotic, apomict, apostil, apostle, apothem, appoint, apricot, aprotic, atopies, atrophy, atropin, autopsy, caltrop, capitol, capotes, caption, captors, carport, coalpit, coapted, compact, compart, copycat, cowpats, dashpot, dopants, ectopia, epazote, esparto, flattop, footpad, galipot, gestapo, haplont, hardtop, hoptoad, impasto, jackpot, laptops, maintop, marplot, metopae, naphtol, nonpast, notepad, opacity, operant, operate, opiated, opiates, optical, optimal, opuntia, outleap, outpace, outpass, outplan, outplay, outpray, outspan, overapt, paction, paletot, pantoum, parotic, parotid, parrots, parroty, partons, partook, pastors, patriot, patrols, patrons, patroon, payouts, peacoat, pelotas, petasos, phaeton, phantom, phonate, phorate, pigboat, pintado, pintano, pivotal, platoon, podesta, polecat, polenta, pomatum, pooftah, portage, portals, portray, postage, postals, postbag, postman, posttax, postwar, potable, potages, potamic, pothead, potlach, pottage, praetor, probate, prolate, pronate, pronota, prorate, protean, proteas, psoatic, ptomain, ragtops, rapport, raptors, readopt, sapotas, sapotes, seaport, stopgap, tadpole, talipot, tampion, tampons, tapalos, taphole, tapioca, taproom, taproot, tarpons, teapots, teapoys, teashop, teopans, timpano, toecaps, topazes, topcoat, topiary, topical, topmast, topsail, towpath, tympano, upcoast, utopian, utopias, zapateo.