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arched

/ahrcht/US // ɑrtʃt //UK // (ɑːtʃt) //

拱形的,拱形,拱起的,拱起

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made, covered, or spanned with an arch or arches.
    • : having the form of an arch.
    • : Heraldry. noting an ordinary or partition line formed as a slight curve.

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Examples

  • Earlier this summer, many media observers’ eyebrows arched when a Vice spokesman told The New York Times that Vice would drop the production of written content by up to 50%.

  • Plus, there are ample opportunities to get out and stretch your legs on short hikes to arched rocks, ancient petroglyphs, and narrow sandstone canyons.

  • For some, the phrase may conjure up images of a close-knit family, a steady job, and a Victorian house at the end of a street arched with oak trees.

  • Hinge forward at your hips and lower your torso until it’s nearly parallel to the floor, keeping your back straight or slightly arched.

  • Your pelvis should be tilted, back slightly arched, and eyes looking forward.

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

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

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

  • For other photographers, models arched their backs and posed.

  • The gracefully arched ceiling of the Oval Office can make the biggest of men look small.

  • The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.

  • He was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.

  • A peculiar form of grave common in these chambers, as well as in the galleries, is that known as the arcosolium, or arched tomb.

  • Sometimes the recess is rectangular instead of arched, and is then called by De Rossi sepolcro a mensa, or table tomb.

  • The high-arched temple, in the centre of which stands the sarcophagus, is inlaid with mosaic work of rare stones.