arch

Speech parts

1. arch - Noun

2. arch - Adjective

3. arch - Verb

4. arch - Adjective Satellite

5. Arch - Proper noun

Meaning

Any part of a curved line.

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.

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.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

To form into an arch; to curve.

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.

A chief.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

arch.

Synonyms

archway mischievous impish curve arc knowing span curved arcade vault wicked playful teasing sly patronizing
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Antonyms

under natural good lower base auxiliary
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Hypernyms

bend structure construction flex entry curve

Hyponyms

camber instep squinch shoulder girdle skew arch scheme arch

Phrases with the word

arch rival corbeled arch arch enemy arch-fiend Tudor arch arch stone

Derivatives

arched arching

Anagrams

char rach

Examples

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Without stones there is no arch. Marco Polo

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. Erasmus Darwin

That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane. Robert Burns

His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings ‘neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.”. Walter de la Mare

An arch never sleeps. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Arceuthobium americanum Arceuthobium laricis Arceuthobium pusillum arch angels arch bridge arch dam