Atop vs Superior - What's the difference?
atop | superior |
On the top of.
* 1966 , The Minnesota Review , vol. 6, page 242
* 2006 , Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch , page 48
*:"And other things," she echoed, nodding slowly and resting her body a little more atop him again.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
On the top, with "of".
On, to, or at the top.
* 1909 , William Dean Howells, Seven English Cities , Kessinger Publishing 2004, p. 46:
* 1978 , James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous , Harper & Row 1978, p. 102:
Higher in quality.
Higher in rank.
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, title= More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
Located above.
# (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
# (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
# (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
# (typography) Printed in superscript.
Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .
* Spectator
As a preposition atop
is on the top of.As an adverb atop
is on, to, or at the top.As an adjective superior is
higher in quality.As a noun superior is
a person of higher rank or quality.atop
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- He sat atop the mountain, waiting for the end of the world.
- A virtue is made out of a necessity, with the child feeling far more atop and master of his oddness, his behavior now deliberate or even clever.
- “Monotheism was born here,” Goren tells me atop a cliff overlooking the sheet of iron-colored water.
Usage notes
"Atop of" was formerly much more commonly used than now.Derived terms
* thereatopSynonyms
* on top * ontop (mainly US)Adverb
(-)- He has a handsome face, still bearded in the midst of a mostly clean-shaving nation, and with the white hairs prevalent on the cheeks and temples; his head is bald atop , though hardly from the uneasiness of wearing a crown.
- The envoy found the French king playing the part of horse while his young son rode atop .
superior
English
Alternative forms
* superiour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
- A genus is superior to a species.
- the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image
- a superior figure or letter
- There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.