Definitions for arched

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Spelling: [ahrcht]

IPA: /ɑrtʃt/

Arched is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in arched (acdehr).

Definitions for arched

noun

1. Architecture. a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening. an upwardly curved construction, as of steel or timber functioning in the manner of a masonry arch. a doorway, gateway, etc., having a curved head; an archway. the curved head of an opening, as a doorway.
2. any overhead curvature resembling an arch.
3. something bowed or curved; any bowlike part:
4. a device inserted in or built into shoes for supporting the arch of the foot.
5. a dam construction having the form of a barrel vault running vertically with its convex face toward the impounded water.
6. Glassmaking. a chamber or opening in a glassmaking furnace. pot arch.

adjective

1. made, covered, or spanned with an arch or arches.
2. having the form of an arch.
3. Heraldry. noting an ordinary or partition line formed as a slight curve.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with a vault, or span with an arch:
2. to throw or make into the shape of an arch or vault; curve:

verb (used without object)

1. to form an arch:
2. Nautical. hog (def 14).

Origin of arched

First recorded in 1575-85; arch¹ + -ed³

Examples for arched

Or gazing towards the Bible stories, saints and martyrs depicted in the arched stained glass windows.

They had passed the arched doorway and crossed the courtyard.

The arched door of the lady's room, or cell, was not quite shut.

She never went further than the bridge which arched over the narrow river.

When they returned, many came to this small building with arched windows only a few blocks from the grimy Caspian beach.

Its familiar spires reach into the sky, the arched walkway hovering high above.

But his mother loved him all the more on account of this weakness that arched his back.

Mr. Hempstead arched his eyebrows a trifle, and looked at the girl in some doubt.

The tour starts with a difficult choice: which of the three arched doorways will you choose?

She hurried out the arched entranceway, asking him not to start that subject again.