arch的意思|arch的解释-里氏词典

Arch \Arch\ ([aum]rch), n. [F. arche, fr. LL. arca, for arcus.
See {Arc}.]
1. (Geom.) Any part of a curved line.

2. (Arch.)
(a) 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.
(b) 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.

Note: Scientifically considered, the arch is a means of
spanning an opening by resolving vertical pressure into
horizontal or diagonal thrust.

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

4. Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the
aorta. ``Colors of the showery arch.'' --Milton.

{Triumphal arch}, a monumental structure resembling an arched
gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate
a triumph.

Arch \Arch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arched} ([aum]rcht); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Arching}.]
1. To cover with an arch or arches.

2. To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

The horse arched his neck. --Charlesworth.

Arch \Arch\, v. i.
To form into an arch; to curve.

Arch \Arch\ (["a]rch), a. [See {Arch-}, pref.]
1. Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

The most arch act of piteous massacre. --Shak.

2. Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an
arch look, word, lad.

[He] spoke his request with so arch a leer.
--Tatler.

Arch \Arch\, n. [See {Arch-}, pref.]
A chief. [Obs.]

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

The duchy was part of the kingdom of Sardinia for a time but was incorporated into France in 1860. We sailed from the Grand Port at Aix-les-Bains, where an elegant arch of plane trees on the waterfront esplanade gave shelter from the sun.
Vertical yellow bands link arch to deck.
The memorial cost $30 million, with the arch accounting for $12 million.
Depending on the type, implants can cost as little as $600 for a single tooth or as much as $10,000 for a full upper or lower arch, and some procedures are covered by Medicare.
A portrait of George V smiled down from above the proscenium arch.
To get rid of those unsightly nets and save the 150-year-old triumphal arch, Michel Marot, the architect in charge of maintaining many of France's monuments, came up with a rehabilitation plan costing 34 million francs ($5.7 million).
In mild gardens or expatriate bunkers, I would go straight for the lovely white Solanum jasminoides, but it will not survive hard winters in open ground on a British arch. White jasmines in Britain are usually rather scruffy, with more leaf than flower.
With Mellor, its arch critic, gone, Covent Garden seems confident enough to ride out the storm.
This has depressed their market share to 11.9 per cent from 12.7 per cent a year ago. Among the executive and luxury car makers, Mercedes-Benz has continued to lose ground to BMW and Audi, its arch rivals.
"The resting place of real union people," reads a sign hanging from a wrought-iron arch over the cemetery gate.
The foot is given support in the arch through an incredibly thin, lightweight and strong material called Graphlite.
Despite the secrecy surrounding the launch, civilians including a busload of school children stopped to watch the rocket rise on a curving arch into the partly cloudy skies.
These countries will offer you art, theatre, style and a coffee-house atmosphere. Chile and Argentina may merge into one on the map, but historically their peoples have been arch rivals.
Besides scoring brownie points in Washington, he's doing down his arch enemy Fidel Castro.
The announced sale of three of the planes comes just two months after neighboring India _ Pakistan's arch foe _ leased a nuclear-powered attack submarine from the Soviet Union.
Travel seven miles north on the road from here and you'll find a multicolored arch marking the place where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos come together.
Important restorations in Rome, such as the Temple of Vesta and Constantine's arch, close to the Colosseum, have been left half-done for lack of funds. Government funding of general maintenance has been more than halved since the mid-1980s.
The most logical explanation is that he will join arch rivals Christie's.
It's interesting but looks the most closely patterned on Graham movement style, as backs arch and necks bend and hold, like sculpture.
Marquis Theater stage manager John Bonanni blamed the blaze on an overheated cable igniting rope in the proscenium arch.
At Greys Court near Henley, Oxfordshire, you can see an airy arch of pink-flowered acacias.
"The arch crimes Hirohito had committed against our nation have not yet been paid off," the North Korean government newspaper Minju Chosun said.
" The arch's architect, the late Eero Saarinen, came up with the design while experimenting with pipe cleaners on his living room floor.
Their popular name is Venus Fishing Rod, and they arch over on to the soil like offshoots from some heavenly cast.
Profitless pecan producers have expressed optimism about a promotion plan that would help them compete with their arch enemies: walnuts and almonds.
"Who do you think talks funny?" is the film makers' arch question.
Through the years the arch's symbolic message has often changed.
At the rear a handsome arch of stained-glass, suggesting the Christian church that haunts the 'Professor"s mind, is composed of shattered windscreens.
The thin settings, from stable to shop to brothel to prison to the gallows, fly down from the proscenium arch or barrel in from the wings.
Downmarket, Jackie Collins oozes ripe glamour; upmarket Anita Brookner is fading, but still has the air of an arch schoolmistress at whose feet one would gladly sit.

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