Arch

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  • adjective. Chief; principal.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Mischievous; roguish.
  • adjective. Teasing, ironic, or sardonic.
  • noun. A usually curved structure forming the upper edge of an open space and supporting the weight above it, as in a bridge or doorway.
  • noun. A structure, such as a freestanding monument, shaped like an inverted U.
  • noun. A curve with the ends down and the middle up.
  • noun. An organ or structure having a curved or bowlike appearance, especially either of two arched sections of the bony structure of the foot.
  • intransitive verb. To provide with an arch.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to form an arch or similar curve.
  • intransitive verb. To bend backward.
  • intransitive verb. To span.
  • intransitive verb. To form an arch or archlike curve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover with a vault, or span with an arch.
  • To throw into the shape of an arch or vault; curve: as, the horse arches his neck.
  • To form an arch or arches: as, the sky arches overhead.
  • noun. Chief; principal: a prefix much used in composition with words both of native and of foreign origin. See arch.
  • Chief; principal; preëminent. See arch-.
  • Cunning; sly; shrewd; waggish; mischievous for sport; roguish: now commonly used of facial expression: as, “so arch a leer,”
  • noun. A chief; a leader.
  • noun. A box or chest; in plural, archives.
  • noun. The ark of Noah.
  • noun. The ark of the covenant.
  • noun. 1. In geometry, any part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; an arc. See arc
  • noun. In architecture, a structure built of separate and inelastic blocks, assembled on a curved line in such a way as to retain their position when the structure is supported extraneously only at its two extremities.
  • noun. Any place covered with an arch or a vault like an arch: as, to pass through the arch of a bridge.
  • noun. Any curvature in the form of an arch: as, the arch of the aorta; the arch of an eyebrow, of the foot, of the heavens, etc.
  • noun. In mining, a portion of a lode left standing, either as being too poor for profitable working or because it is needed to support the adjacent rock.
  • noun. The roofing of the fire-chamber of a furnace, as a reverberatory or a glass-furnace; hence, sometimes, the fire-chamber itself.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cover with an arch or arches.
  • transitive verb. To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
  • noun. Any part of a curved line.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
  • noun. A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
  • noun. Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
  • noun. Any curvature in the form of an arch.
  • noun. a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.
  • adjective. Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
  • adjective. Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish.
  • intransitive verb. To form into an arch; to curve.
  • noun. A chief.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. ​ Knowing, clever, mischievous.
  • adjective. Principal; primary.
  • noun. An inverted U shape.
  • noun. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
  • noun. An architectural element having the shape of an arch
  • noun. An arc; a part of a curve.
  • verb. To form into an arch shape
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. form an arch or curve
  • Word Usage
    "MISCELLANEOUS WORDS. adobe _ado'ba_ algebra not _bra_ alien _alyen_, not _alien_ ameliorate _amelyorate_ antarctic _antarktik_ anti not _anti_ archangel _arkangel_ archbishop _arch_, not _ark_ arch fiend _arch_, not _ark_ architect _arkitect_ awkward _awkward_, not _ard_"
    Equivalent
    Form
    arched  arching  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    March  demarche  larch  march  parch  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    building  ceil  chamber  curve  dome  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    arched  arches  arching  archs