Arch

[ɑːtʃ] or [ɑrtʃ]

解释:

(noun.) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it.

(noun.) a passageway under a curved masonry construction; 'they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory'.

(noun.) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet).

(noun.) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening.

(verb.) form an arch or curve; 'her back arches'; 'her hips curve nicely'.

(adj.) naughtily or annoyingly playful; 'teasing and worrying with impish laughter'; 'a wicked prank' .

(adj.) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension .

(adj.) expert in skulduggery; 'an arch criminal' .

手打:威利--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Any part of a curved line.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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

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

(v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches.

(v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

(v. i.) To form into an arch; to curve.

(a.) Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

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

(n.) A chief.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. (Geom.) Arc, part of a circumference.[2]. Curved structure.

v. a. [1]. Vault, cover with an arch, arch over.[2]. Bend into the form of an arch.

a. [1]. Chief, principal, consummate, first-rate, of the first class.[2]. Sly, shrewd, cunning, wily, astute, subtle.[3]. Roguish, waggish, mirthful, frolicsome, sportive, merry, playful.

手打:奥利

解释:

adj. cunning: waggish: roguish: shrewd now mostly of women and children.—adv. Arch′ly.—n. Arch′ness.

adj. used as a prefix now chiefly as an intensive in an odious sense: the first or chief.—ns. Arch′-en′emy a chief enemy: Satan—also Arch′-foe; Arch′-fiend the supreme fiend: Satan; Arch′-flā′men a chief flamen or priest; Arch-he′resy; Arch′-he′retic a leader of heresy; Arch′-mock′ (Shak.) the height of mockery; Arch′-pī′rate a chief pirate; Arch′-pō′et a chief poet: (obs.) a poet-laureate; Arch′-prel′ate a chief prelate; Arch′-priest′ a chief priest: in early times a kind of vicar to the bishop—later a rural dean: the title given to the superiors appointed by the Pope to govern the secular priests sent into England from the foreign seminaries during the period 1598-1621; Arch′-trait′or a chief traitor sometimes applied esp. to the devil or to Judas.

n. a concave construction of stones or other materials built or turned on a centering over an open space so as by mutual pressure to support each other and sustain a superincumbent weight.—v.t. to cover with an arch: to bend into the form of an arch.—p.adj. Arched made with an arch or like an arch.—ns. Arch′let a little arch; Arch′way an arched or vaulted passage esp. that leading into a castle.—Arches or Court of Arches the ecclesiastical court of appeal for the province of Canterbury formerly held at the church of St-Mary-le-Bow (or 'of the Arches') from the arches that support its steeple.

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