arched

(ärcht)

adj.

1. Forming an arch or a curve like that of an arch.

2. Provided, made, or covered with an arch.

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arched

(ɑːtʃt)

adj

1. provided with or spanned by an arch or arches

2. shaped like an arch; curved

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

arched

(ɑrtʃt)

adj.

1. made, covered, or spanned with an arch or arches.

2. having the form of an arch.

[1575–85]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	arched - constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches; "an arched passageway"
	2.	arched - forming or resembling an arch; "an arched ceiling" arced, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" curved, curving - having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"

arched

adjective curved, domed, vaulted an arched roof

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

arched

adjective

Deviating from a straight line:

arced, arciform, bent, bowed, curved, curvilinear, rounded.

Translations

مُقَوَّس

klenutý

buethvælvet

boltíves

bogadreginn

arcuato inarcato arcata

buet hvelvet

kemerli

弓形的

arched

[ɑːtʃt] ADJ [roof, window, doorway] → abovedado; [bridge] → con arcos, con arcadas; [brow] → arqueado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

arched

[ˈɑː^rtʃt] adj

(curved at the top) [window, roof, doorway] → cintré(e)

(made of arches) [bridge] → en arc

(= curved) [eyebrows] → arqué(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

arched

adj → gewölbt; arched window → (Rund)bogenfenster nt; the arched curve of the temple roof → die Wölbung des Tempeldachs

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

arched

[ɑːtʃt] adj → arcuato/a, ad arco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

arch

(aːtʃ) noun

1. the top part of a door etc or a support for a roof etc which is built in the shape of a curve.

2. a monument which is shaped like an arch. the Marble Arch in London.

3. anything that is like an arch in shape. The rainbow formed an arch in the sky.

4. the raised part of the sole of the foot.

verb

to (cause to) be in the shape of an arch. The cat arched its back.

arched adjective

an arched doorway.

ˈarchway noun

an arched passage, door or entrance.

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The garden is best to be square, encompassed on all the four sides with a stately arched hedge.

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Two yards from the door, at the head of this stair, is an opening nearly east, accessible by treading on the ledge of the wall, which diminishes eight inches each story ; and this last opening leads into a room or chapel ten feet by twelve, and fifteen or sixteen high, arched with free-stone, and supported by small circular columns of the same, the capitals and arches Saxon.

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For this purpose, they used to mount the staircase together, to the second story of the house, where, at the termination of a wide entry, there was an arched window, of uncommonly large dimensions, shaded by a pair of curtains.

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And the doors are arched with the peculiar arch we see in Moorish pictures; the floors are laid in varicolored diamond flags; in tesselated, many-colored porcelain squares wrought in the furnaces of Fez; in red tiles and broad bricks that time cannot wear; there is no furniture in the rooms (of Jewish dwellings) save divans--what there is in Moorish ones no man may know; within their sacred walls no Christian dog can enter.

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Th' ascending pile Stood fixt her stately highth, and strait the dores Op'ning thir brazen foulds discover wide Within, her ample spaces, o're the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and ASPHALTUS yeilded light As from a sky.

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As I craned my neck to catch a glimpse of the thing that had aroused the fury of the beast before me, it sprang through the arched gateway and was at my side--with parted lips and heaving bosom and disheveled hair--a bronzed and lovely vision to eyes that had never harbored hope of rescue.

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