"Arch-" is a word in ENGLISH
A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
To cover with an arch or arches.
Any part of a curved line.
To form into an arch; to curve.
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 curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the
aorta.
Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into
the arch of a bridge.
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.
To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
A chief.
A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch
look, word, lad.
A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popular art are not in competition here. Both may help citizens decide what they are and what they admire. In our age, however, high art has given up speaking to the body of its fellow citizens. It devotes itself to technical displays that can appeal only to other technicians.
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Read the complete definitionAn arch.
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Read the complete definitionAn arched or covered passageway or avenue.
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Read the complete definitionMade with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.
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Read the complete definitionIn English ecclesiastical law. A court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Judge of which is called …
Read the complete definitionA prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, …
Read the complete definitionThe arched part of a structure.
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Read the complete definitionHogging; -- opposed to sagging.
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