Arch

//ɑɹt͡ʃ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Knowing, clever, mischievous.

    "I attempted to hide my emotions, but an arch remark escaped my lips."

  2. 2
    Initialism of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
  3. 3
    Cute, sly, prematurely wise. Ireland
  4. 4
    Principal; primary.

    "They were arch enemies."

Adjective
  1. 1
    naughtily or annoyingly playful wordnet
  2. 2
    (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given names Archibald or Archie.
Noun
  1. 1
    An inverted U shape.
  2. 2
    A chief. obsolete

    "My worthy arch and patron comes to-night."

  3. 3
    An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.

    "In the Linux kernel, arch-specific code lives in the arch directory of the source tree."

  4. 4
    (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it wordnet
  5. 5
    An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
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  1. 6
    Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
  2. 7
    a passageway under a curved masonry construction wordnet
  3. 8
    An architectural element having the shape of an arch
  4. 9
    a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) wordnet
  5. 10
    Any place covered by an arch; an archway.

    "to pass into the arch of a bridge"

  6. 11
    a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening wordnet
  7. 12
    An arc; a part of a curve. archaic
  8. 13
    A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
  9. 14
    The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
Verb
  1. 1
    To form into an arch shape. transitive

    "The cat arched its back."

  2. 2
    form an arch or curve wordnet
  3. 3
    To cover with an arch or arches. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels.

Etymology 2

From Middle English arch, arche, from Old French arche (“an arch”), a feminine form of arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arc and arco. Displaced native Old English bīeġels.

Etymology 3

From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc.

Etymology 4

From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc.

Etymology 5

Clipping of architecture.

Etymology 6

Clipping of Archibald or Archie.

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