Arch vs. Arc

A usually curved structure forming the upper edge of an open space and supporting the weight above it, as in a bridge or doorway.

Something shaped like a curve or arch

A structure, such as a freestanding monument, shaped like an inverted U.

(Mathematics) A segment of a circle.

A curve with the ends down and the middle up:the arch of a raised eyebrow.

An electric arc.

(Anatomy)An organ or structure having a curved or bowlike appearance, especially either of two arched sections of the bony structure of the foot.

(Astronomy) The apparent path of a celestial body as it rises above and falls below the horizon.

To provide with an arch:arch a passageway.

A progression of events suggesting narrative cohesion, especially one that rises to a climax and settles to a final conclusion.

To cause to form an arch or similar curve.

To form an arc.

To bend backward:The dancers alternately arched and hunched their backs.

To move or seem to move in a curved path

To span:"the rude bridge that arched the flood"(Ralph Waldo Emerson).

(astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.

To form an arch or archlike curve:The high fly ball arched toward the stands.

(geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.

Chief; principal

A curve, in general. Category:en:Curves

Mischievous; roguish

A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.

Teasing, ironic, or sardonic

(electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.

An inverted U shape.

A story arc.

An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.

(mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.

(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch

(graph theory) A directed edge.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway.

The three-point line.

An arc; a part of a curve.

(film) An arclight.

A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.

(ambitransitive) To move following a curved path.

(anatomy) Curved part of the bottom of a foot.

(transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.

(obsolete) chief

(intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

To form into an arch shape.

A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

To cover with an arch or arches.

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

Knowing, clever, mischievous

An arch.

Principal; primary

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.

Any part of a curved line.

To form a voltaic arc, as an electrical current in a broken or disconnected circuit.

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.

Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

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

A continuous portion of a circle

Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

Something curved in shape

A chief.

Form an arch or curve;

To cover with an arch or arches.

To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

To form into an arch; to curve.

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

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

A curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening

A curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially arches of the feet)

A passageway under an arch

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

Form an arch or curve;

(of persons) highest in rank or authority or office;

(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

Expert in skulduggery;