Dictionary Entry
arch
arch is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any part of a curved line. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any part of a curved line.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
- 5noun
Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.
- 6transitive verb
To cover with an arch or arches.
- 7transitive verb
To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
- 8intransitive verb
To form into an arch; to curve.
- 9
A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
- 10adjective
Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
- 11adjective
Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
- 12noun
A chief.
- 13adjective
A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
- 14noun
(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
- 15noun
a passageway under a curved masonry construction
"they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory"
Synonyms
- 16noun
a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- 17noun
a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- 18verb
form an arch or curve
"her back arches"
"her hips curve nicely"
- 19adjective
naughtily or annoyingly playful
"teasing and worrying with impish laughter"
"a wicked prank"
- 20adjective
expert in skulduggery
"an arch criminal"
- 21adjective
(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
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