(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(2) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(3) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(4) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(5) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(6) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
(7) Between March 1986 and September 1988, 38 patients underwent extended aortic resection (aortic valve, ascending aorta, and arch) for acute type-A aortic dissection with aortic valve insufficiency; deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest were used.
(8) Other associated malformations were an interrupted aortic arch and an atrial septal defect.
(9) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
(10) In the anaesthetized dog the carotid sinuses and aortic arch were isolated from the circulation and separately perfused with blood by a method which enabled the mean pressure, pulse pressure and pulse frequency to be varied independently in each vasosensory area.
(11) The data presented in this paper confirm the need for stimulation of the pudendal reflex arch to achieve physiological conditions.
(12) This article describes the application and efficacy of the lipbumper used in the lower arch.
(13) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(14) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(15) This malformation was demonstrated in alcian-blue- and alizarin-red-stained fetal skeletons by measurements of the distance between the cartilaginous ends of each vertebral arch.
(16) No correlation was found between aortic arch size and the size of the left-to-right shunt in cases of DAP.
(17) After 48 hours in culture, all specimens were examined at 6x magnification for defects in the facial arches, head fold, and neural tube fusion.
(18) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(19) Although different dimensions of the face and head and the upper dental arch width were found to be significantly correlated in children with normal occlusion, this relationship is not found to be strong enough in children with different categories of malocclusion.
(20) We suggest that incomplete development of the bones of the dorsal neural arches of the upper sacrum may be a marker of incomplete neurogenesis of the sacral nerves.
Archway
Definition:
(n.) A way or passage under an arch.
Example Sentences:
(1) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
(2) The vehicles entered under an archway formed by the ladders from two fire trucks with an American flag hung between them.
(3) We are sitting in the corner of a Spanish restaurant in north London, not far from where she grew up in Archway.
(4) Archway, which employs about 30 people, has argued that the huge new football stadium and associated development will create just 274 permanent new jobs and not be the catalyst for wider regeneration of Tottenham that the council, and the local Labour MP, David Lammy, crave.
(5) "We are an intelligence-gathering operation," says Superintendent Bob Wishart of Operation Archway.
(6) There is indoor seating and archways that lead into a garden overlooking the locals’ vegetable patches.
(7) June Merrett, from Archway, also in north London, was hoping to get "as close as I can to Obama".
(8) And then there she is, a small figure, emerging from the darkness of the back room through silver curtains draped across an archway, taking off her apron, a smile spreading across her face.
(9) Micky Josif, a member of the family which owns and runs Archway Metals on Paxton Road.
(10) Thick sections (30mu unstained) cut from blocks of lung tissue from 100 consecutive necropsies for the years 1936, 1946, 1956, and 1966 at the Archway Hospital, London, have been searched for asbestos bodies.
(11) Maddy and I both awarded it eights for having such great caves and archways to explore.
(12) All that remains are three tall chimney stacks and a large stone archway.
(13) Those anxious that the world will end on 21 December this year – such as the residents of Chelyabinsk in Russia, who have built a Mayan-style archway out of ice – may be comforted to know that over the past 2,000 years there have been at least 200 confident, date-specific prophecies, and they have all been wrong.
(14) Sometimes the two architectures mixed: a Roman archway became part of a cowshed, a delicate column supported a crude balcony of breeze blocks and metal sheets.
(15) Three schools – Rednock, Archway, and Sir William Romney’s – have formally withdrawn from collaborative working as part of the Marling Teaching School Alliance .
(16) Given the threat that your increase will prove to those secondary schools in the area … their very existence is at stake.” Given the threat that your increase will prove to those secondary schools in the area … their very existence is at stake Letter by Archway comprehensive to two local grammar schools Non-selective secondary heads are not only worried about the money: the fear is that the drop in the academic ability profile of their schools as a result of the grammars’ expansion will detrimentally affect the education, opportunities and results of pupils.
(17) He also went to Operation Archway, a section of the City of London police that deals with boiler-room fraud.
(18) • Castle Road, Blackrock, castlecafe.ie , Elbow Lager €4.60 Franciscan Well Brewery, Cork This microbrewery, reached through an archway on a residential street, was built on the site of a monastery that dates from 1219.
(19) From the tiny harbour of Stackpole Quay, take the cliff path over dunes, through stone archways and down a steep, wooded descent to the yellow sands of Barafundle.
(20) The other side of the wall, though, through an open archway, is what makes Hurwundeki – "hair" in the dialect of Jeju island, South Korea – unusual even in east London: bent over 1950s barbershop chairs, four dauntingly hip stylists tend with clippers and scissors to their clients, with a whole bunch of equally hip people waiting.