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Arched
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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noun
1.
Architecture.
a.
a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening.
b.
an upwardly curved construction, as of steel or timber functioning in the manner of a masonry arch.
c.
a doorway, gateway, etc., having a curved head; an archway.
d.
the curved head of an opening, as a doorway.
2.
any overhead curvature resembling an arch.
3.
something bowed or curved; any bowlike part: the arch of the foot.
4.
a device inserted in or built into shoes for supporting the arch of the foot.
5.
EXPANDa dam construction having the form of a barrel vault running vertically with its convex face toward the impounded water.
verb (used with object)
7.
to cover with a vault, or span with an arch: the rude bridge that arched the flood.
8.
to throw or make into the shape of an arch or vault; curve: The horse arched its neck.
verb (used without object)
9.
to form an arch: elms arching over the road.
10.
Nautical. hog (def. 14).
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English arch(e) < Old French arche < Vulgar Latin *arca, feminine variant of Latin arcus arc
1250–1300; Middle English arch(e) < Old French arche < Vulgar Latin *arca, feminine variant of Latin arcus arc
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Word Origin & History
arch
1540s, "chief, principal," from prefix arch- (from Gk. arkhos "chief;" see archon); used in 12c. archangel, etc., but extended to so many derogatory uses (arch-rogue, arch-knave, etc.) that it acquired a meaning of "roguish, mischievous," since softened to "saucy" (1660s).
EXPANDAlso found in archwife (late 14c.) "A wife of a superior order."
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Medical Dictionary
arch (ärch)
n.
An organ or structure having a curved or bowlike appearance, especially either of two arched sections of the bony structure of the foot.
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Cultural Dictionary
arch definition
In architecture, a curved or pointed opening that spans a doorway, window, or other space.
Note: The form of arch used in building often serves to distinguish styles of architecture from one another. For example, Romanesque architecture usually employs a round arch, and Gothic architecture, a pointed arch.
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