meaning of arch
1. A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
2. A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
3. Any part of a curved line.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
7. Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
8. To cover with an arch or arches.
9. To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
10. To form into an arch; to curve.
11. Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
12. Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
13. A chief.
14. architecture a masonry construction usually curved for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
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