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Definition of Arch
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Arch
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 cover with an arch or arches. 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. Related Definitions:
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Arch Quotations
Without stones there is no arch. Marco Polo Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. Henry Miller Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. King Hussein I Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. Kublai Khan All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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Arch Translations
arch in Italian is volta arch in Latin is arcus, forix, curvo arch in Spanish is arco, boveda |
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