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Verb
/ärCH/,
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arches, 3rd person singular present; arched, past tense; arching, present participle; arched, past participle;
  1. Have the curved shape of an arch
    • - a beautiful bridge that arched over a canal
  2. Form or cause to form the curved shape of an arch
    • - her eyebrows arched in surprise
    • - she arched her back
  3. Provide (a bridge, building, or part of a building) with an arch
    • - high arched windows
  4. Span (something) by or as if by an arch
    • - the vine arched his evening seat
  1. arced: forming or resembling an arch; "an arched ceiling"
  2. An arch is a structure that spans a space while supporting weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall). Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture and their systematic use started with the Ancient Romans who were the first to apply the technique to a wide ...
  3. (arched) To have made curved; Curved
  4. (Arched) Signifies that an ordinary on an escutcheon is bent or bowed. (Sometimes called archy.)
  5. (Arched) the underside of the lintel has an overall upward convex curvature such as a catenary or arch.
  6. Skidding logs or trees using a mounted or trailing arch (8).
  7. The transfer of stress from a yielding part of a soil or rock mass to adjoining less-yielding or restrained parts of the mass.
  8. shaping done on the outside of the front and back
  9. Brickwork or stonework forming the roof of any underground roadway.
  10. In the case of a buried structure, it is the tendency for the soil particles to lock together in the form of an arch, with the result that part of the stress is transmitted around the structure instead of through it.
  11. Occasionally used as descriptive of the same phenomenon as the term "hogging."
  12. Fracture processes around a mine opening, leading to stabilization by an arching effect.