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Definition: Arch |
ArchAdjective1. (of persons) highest in rank or authority or office; "his arch rival"; "the boss man"; "the chief executive"; "head librarian"; "top administrators". 2. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension. 3. Expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal". Noun1. A curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening. 2. A curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially arches of the feet). 3. A passageway under an arch. 4. (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it. Verb1. Form an arch. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Arch an architectural term found only in Ezek. 40:16, 21, 22, 26, 29. There is no absolute proof that the Israelites employed arches in their buildings. The arch was employed in the building of the pyramids of Egypt. The oldest existing arch is at Thebes, and bears the date B.C. 1350. There are also still found the remains of an arch, known as Robinson's Arch, of the bridge connecting Zion and Moriah. (See TYROPOEON VALLEY.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | A brick in which the large faces are inclined towards each other in such a way that one of the side faces is narrower than the other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | An arch in a dream, denotes your rise to distinction and the gaining of wealth by persistent effort. To pass under one, foretells that many will seek you who formerly ignored your position. For a young woman to see a fallen arch, denotes the destruction of her hopes, and she will be miserable in her new situation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A stout, arched, steel frame mounted on wheels or tracks, for use with a tractor in skidding, one end of the log(s)being slung beneath the arch. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A transverse piece joining the tops of the two uprights of planers, boring mills or similar machine frames. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A transverge arch consisting of the metatarsals and first row of tarsals and resulting from elevation of the central anterior portion of the median longitudinal arch. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Dental appliance for correcting deformities of the teeth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A tranverge arch consisting of the metatarsals and first row of tarsals and resulting from elevation of the central anterior portion of the median longitudinal arch. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The roof of the heating chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A portion of rock left standing at the intersection of a mine wall and roof, to support the roof. b. Curved roof of underground opening. See also:dome c. A curved structural member used to span openings or recesses; also built flat. Structurally, an arch is a piece or assemblage of pieces so arranged over an opening that the supported load is resolved into pressures on the side supports and practically normal to their faces d. A part of a furnace; a crown e. To heat a pot in a pot arch f. One of the five chambers of a brick kiln; also, the fire chamber in certain kinds of furnaces and ovens. (references) |
Transportation | Curved strutural member spanning an opening and serving as a support for other equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall). The arch was developed in Ancient Greece and later refined in Ancient Rome. The arch became an important technique in cathedral building and is still used today in some modern structures as for example in bridges.It is significant because it converts tensile stresses in spanning structural members into compression stresses only. Stone is weak in tension and cannot span signficant distances without collapsing under its own weight. By configuring it into an arch, signficant spans can be achieved.
Arches were used by the Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek and Assyrian civilizations for underground structures such as drains and vaults, but the ancient Romans were the first to use them widely above ground. The so-called Roman arch is semicircular, and built from an odd number of arch bricks (in modern architectural parlance, these are called voussoirs). The capstone or keystone is the topmost stone in the arch. This shape is the simplest to build, but not the strongest. There is a tendency for the sides to bulge outwards, which must be counteracted by an added weight of masonry to push them inwards. The semicircular arch can be flattened to make an elliptical arch. The horseshoe arch is based on the semicircular arch, but its lower ends are extended further round the circle until they start to converge. It was used in Islamic architecture, as in the Great Mosque of Damascus and in later Moorish buildings. It was used for decoration rather than for strength. The semicircular arch was followed in Europe by the pointed Gothic arch, whose centreline more closely followed the forces of compression and which was therefore stronger. This design had been used by the Assyrians as early as 722 BC. The parabolic and catenary arches are now known to be the theoretically strongest forms.
A dome is a three-dimensional application of the arch. Igloos are notable early structures making use of domes.
The arch was used in some bridges in China since the Song dynasty.
A special form of the arch is the triumphal arch, usually built to celebrate a victory in war. The most famous example of this is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
Natural rock formations may also be referred to as 'arches'. These natural arches are formed by erosion rather than being carved or constructed by man. See Arches National Park for examples.
The "Golden Arches" form the logo of McDonald's, often put on high poles to mark the restaurant.
See also: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
See Also: Natural arch
ARCH models - autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop, responsible for all churches belonging to a religious group of a particular district. The diocese of which an archbishop is head is called an archdiocese. An archbishop is usually also the Metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province, but there are exceptions to this rule. When a plain bishop becomes an archbishop, he is not in any sense being ordained nor otherwise receiving any sacrament; by contrast (in the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox churches) a man becoming a bishop is being ordained.Notable archbishops, past and present, include:
See also: Archbishop of Canterbury
- Isidore, Archbishop of Seville
- Albert, Archbishop of Mainz
- Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica
- Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York
- William, Archbishop of Mainz
- Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
- Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston
- John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore
- Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town
Etymology: From Greek archepiskopos, arch- probably from archon, leader or ruler, and epi-skopos, over-seer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Archbishop."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ARCH | English | Art Restoration for Cultural Heritage | Fine Arts |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ArchSynonyms: arch(a) (adj), boss(a) (adj), chief(a) (adj), condescending (adj), head(a) (adj), patronising (adj), patronizing (adj), top(a) (adj), archway (n), arc (v), curve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Celebration | Triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
Convexity | Cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster. |
Cunning | Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff. |
Curvature | Carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window. |
Render curved; Adjective: flex, bend, curve, incurvate; inflect; deflect, scatter; refract (light); crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle. | |
Evening | Phrase: "midnight, the outpost of advancing day"; "sable-vested Night"; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd". |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
Support | Columella, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay. |
Trophy | Noun: trophy; medal, prize, palm, award; laurel, laurels; bays, crown, chaplet, wreath, civic crown; insignia; feather in one's cap; (honor); decoration; garland, triumphal arch, Victoria Cross, Iron Cross. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. It if you find a body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Rakes, my arch enemy (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your bed (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) Arch, let me help you close up. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) I the, arch heretic, am reformer Stanley Tweedle (Lexx: The Dark Zone; writing credit: Paul Donovan; Lex Gigeroff) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arch Enemy of the FBI Cosa Nostra (1967) Dewey Arch: Troops Passing Under Arch (1899) The Dewey Arch (1899) New York City Dewey Arch (1899) Arch of Triumph (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Arch Rock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Gull Rock and Arch Rock Boswell Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Arch rock at Depoe Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | What appears to be a swallow-tailed gull - Creagrus furcatus - is framed in a lava arch along a Galapagos shoreline. Credit: Small World. |
 | Dutchmans Arch, Head of Sinbad in the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |  | Hondo Arch along the Red Canyon Loop, San Rafael Swell. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |
 | Corona Arch near Moab, Utah. Credit: Jerry Sintz. |  | Approaching Pot Hole Arch. OR 3-59. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Wilson Arch south of Moab, Utah. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |  | Jug Handle Arch along the Potash Road near Moab, Utah. Credit: Jerry Sintz. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Through the arch" by Matt Schoenholz Commentary: "A view through an arch at the colloseum." | "Louvre pyramid through arch" by Jim Bednar Commentary: "Visitors to the Louvre, framed by archway and in front of the Pei pyramid." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Adams | All experience is an arch, to build upon. |
Thomas Carlyle | The archenemy is the arch stupid! |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The first thing that he noticed in this yard was a door of the sixteenth century, which seemed like an arch, everything having fallen down around it. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The tyrannous and bloody act is done, The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She tried to arch her whole body as a rigid container to preserve her fetus from shock |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It affords me no satisfaction to commerce to spring an arch before I have got a solid foundation |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Several well-known magazines such as BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan, CLEO, and Arch were translated and introduced into Taiwan five years ago. The Chinese version of National Geographic, Popular Science and the Madame Figaro are being introduced into the Taiwan market January 2001. Syndication is a very successful method of widening the periodicals market in Taiwan. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | It will be 404 meters long, 41 meters wide, with a main arch span of 121 meters and clearance sea levels measuring 15.4 meters. (references) |
Human Rights | Ukraine | The media and human rights groups reported that police subjected detainees to various methods of physical torture, including the "swallow," in which the detainee is placed on his stomach and his feet are tied to his hands behind him, forcing his back to arch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Arch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.40% of the time. "Arch" is used about 813 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.4% | 743 | 9,146 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.95% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.83% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.09% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.37% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.37% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 813 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "arch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Arch | Last name | 400 | 20,407 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Arch Wireless Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "arch": abutment arch ♦ alveolar arch ♦ aortic arch ♦ aortic arch syndrome ♦ Aortic Arch Syndromes ♦ arch behind a lintel ♦ arch brick ♦ arch enemy ♦ arch fiend ♦ arch idiot ♦ arch look ♦ arch of heaven ♦ arch of the foot ♦ arch of the instep ♦ arch one's back ♦ arch one's eyebrows ♦ arch over ♦ arch rim ♦ arch rise ♦ arch stone ♦ arch support ♦ arch supporter ♦ arch the back ♦ Bell arch ♦ branchial arch ♦ broken arch ♦ Camber arch ♦ Chancel arch ♦ Chord of an arch ♦ corbel arch ♦ costal arch ♦ crepuscular arch ♦ dental arch ♦ diminished arch ♦ Discharging arch ♦ drop arch ♦ end arch ♦ fallen arch ♦ False arch ♦ fantail arch ♦ Fine arch ♦ flat arch ♦ Geostatic arch ♦ gill arch ♦ gothic arch ♦ gravity arch dam ♦ haemal arch ♦ Haunches of an arch ♦ height of arch ♦ hemal arch ♦ hinged arch ♦ horseshoe arch ♦ Hyoid arch ♦ Imperfect arch ♦ in an arch manner ♦ Inverted arch ♦ Jack arch ♦ keel arch ♦ Laminated arch ♦ lancet arch ♦ logging arch ♦ Mandibular arch ♦ Maya arch ♦ Mayan arch ♦ metatarsal arch ♦ moorish arch ♦ neural arch ♦ oblique arch ♦ ogee arch ♦ peak arch ♦ pectoral arch ♦ pelvic arch ♦ pier arch ♦ pointed arch ♦ proscenium arch ♦ pubic arch ♦ rampant arch ♦ recessed arch ♦ relieving arch ♦ roman arch ♦ rood arch ♦ round arch ♦ rowlock arch ♦ safety arch ♦ scapular arch ♦ scheme arch ♦ scoinson arch ♦ sconcheon arch ♦ segmental arch ♦ semicircular arch ♦ shouldered arch ♦ side arch ♦ skeen arch ♦ skene arch ♦ skew arch ♦ smoke arch ♦ spring of an arch ♦ springing line of an arch ♦ sprung arch ♦ steel arch bridge ♦ stilted arch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "arch": arch-agent, arch-appeaser, arch-backed, arch-bamboozler, arch-baseliner, arch-bebop, Arch-bishop, arch-boss, arch-capitalists, arch-chancellor, arch-chanter, arch-chaplain, arch-competitor, arch-conservative, arch-conspirator, arch-critic, arch-cynic, Arch-deacons, arch-demagogue, arch-demon, arch-ditherer, arch-duke, arch-enemies, arch-enemy, arch-exponent, arch-father, arch-favourite, arch-gallic, arch-guru, arch-heretics, arch-humiliators, arch-ideologue, arch-illusion, arch-introspective, arch-kinnockites, Arch-lector, arch-like, arch-lined, arch-minimalist, arch-opponent, arch-opponents, arch-political, arch-practitioner, arch-prelate, arch-priest, arch-priestess, arch-priests, arch-proponent, arch-publicist, arch-rebel, arch-rival, arch-rivals, arch-see, arch-shaped, arch-smuggler, arch-socialist, arch-squanderer, arch-support, arch-supports, arch-thatcherite, arch-top, arch-tory, arch-traditionalist, arch-traitor, arch-villain, arch-villains, arch-weirdos, arch-wet. | |
Ending with "arch": lever-arch. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
arch | 1,248 | arch pager | 62 |
arch national park | 1,110 | arch natl park ut | 53 |
st louis arch | 747 | radar arch | 51 |
arch wireless | 747 | arch bridge stone | 51 |
arch support | 673 | arch news peace | 51 |
arch paging | 470 | arch communication | 45 |
gateway arch | 417 | arch insurance | 44 |
wedding arch | 300 | arch window | 43 |
arch enemy | 281 | saint louis arch | 42 |
balloon arch | 163 | arch coal | 41 |
custom arch support | 149 | foot arch | 41 |
garden arch | 122 | arch support shoes | 39 |
arch crawford | 111 | arch balloon make | 39 |
arch angel | 108 | arch steel building | 39 |
arch pain | 108 | thistle marble arch | 37 |
fallen arch | 105 | high arch | 35 |
arch bridge | 82 | arch noahs | 35 |
arch chemical | 74 | arch decorating wedding | 34 |
stone arch | 69 | st louis arch picture | 34 |
st louis gateway arch | 67 | roman arch | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "arch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aartsvyand (arch-enemy). (various references) | |
Albanian | qemer (archway, lintel, vault), kryesor (arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i djallëzuar (impish, malicious, mischievous), hark (arc, bow, cantilever, crossbow, span). (various references) | |
Arabic | مدخل تحت قنطرة (archwise), قنطرة (vault), قوس (arc, bow, bracket, hoop), تقوس (bend, bow, curve, hog, sweep), عقد قنطري (vault), رئيسي (arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple), شكل قنطرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свод на ходилото, свод (anticline, archway, concave, cope, cove, dome, vault, vaulting), хитър (acute, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), арка (archway, bow, false arch), изпечен (arrant, consummate, hard bitten, perfect, practised). (various references) | |
Chinese | 曲拱 (Arch-, Arches), 拱形 , 弧形 . (various references) | |
Czech | oblouk (arc, archway, bow, curve, span), klenout se (camber, extend), klenba (canopy, roof, vault, vaulting), ètverácký (roguish, waggish), šelmovský (impish). (various references) | |
Danish | arbejdsaabning (pot opening), tag (roof, take), svang (plantar arch, waist), overligger (girder, lintel, tie beam, tiepiece, top brace), kniv (knife), kantbue (bandelette, brace), kaevlebue (logging arch), indspaendt bue, halvstensbuesten (culvert header, side-arch brick), boejle (bandelette, brace, clamp, clasp, clothes-hanger, coat-hanger, stay), baandbue (bandelette, brace). (various references) | |
Dutch | boog (arc, bow). (various references) | |
Esperanto | arkaĵo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشوندبمعنی ،رءیس ،کبیر،کمان ،طلاق , موذی (Baneful, Insidious, Mischievous, Shrewd, Sly), ناقلا (Astute, Clever, Rogue, Shrewd, Sly), قوس (Arc, Archer, Bow, Chord), طاق (Arc, Azygos, Roof, Vault), اصلی (Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), رءیس (Administer, Chairman, Chief, Dean, Director, Head, Header, Headman, Headmaster, Master, Premier(Re), President, Principal, Provost, Regent, Ruler, Sheikh, Warden), شیطان (Bogey, Deuce, Devil, Impish, Mischievous, Naughty, Tempter), بزرگ (Adult, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous), بشکل قوس یاطاق دراوردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | aloitusaukko (pot opening), uunin holvi, poikittainen tukipalkki (cross-beam, tie beam, tiepiece, top brace, top rail), kuormakaari (logging arch), kaartua (curve, wind), kaari (arc, bow, curve), kaarevuus (arched form, curvature, curve), kaareutua (be arched), köyristää (bend, bow), holvikaari, holvata (vault). (various references) | |
French | voûte, cintre (roadway arch). (various references) | |
German | gewölbe (arches, cove, dome, roof, vault, vaulting, vaults), Bogen (arc, bend, bow, bulge, curve, detour, quire, scallop, sheet, sheet of paper, slur, span, sweep, swerve, tie, turn), Wölbung (bulge, camber, cove, curvature, curve, dome, oncavity, vaulting). (various references) | |
Greek | αψίδα (apse, arc, dome). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקמר (convexity, vault), להתקשת, קשת (arc, bow, rainbow, vault), עוגבני (coquettish, flirtatious), ערמומי (artful, calculating, canny, catchy, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, insidious, pawky, shifty, slicker, sly, underhand, wily), כפה (cap, cupola, dome, knoll, skullcap, vault). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bolthajtás (vault), boltív (cove, vault). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lucu (burlesque, comic, funny, gaga, jocular), jenaka (comic, droll, funny, jocose, quizzical), busur (archer bow), belengkong. (various references) | |
Italian | volta (archway, phrase, piece, roof, time, turn, vault, vaulted), arco (arc, bow, space). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 迫持 , 反り (curvature, curve, warp), アース線 (arch dam, archery, artifact, artisan, artist, earthed line, groundwire, homerun). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そり (curvature, curve, sled, sleigh, warp), せりもち, アーチ (homerun). (various references) | |
Korean | 아치 (Arch-, Arches). (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo aae jeh, droghad (bridge, bridge of ship, gantry, viaduct), dreeym (back, camber, down, edge, fret, hillside, instep, ridge, saddle, shed, terrace), cur aae er (vault), arc, aae (archway, ford, vault). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | archay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arco (arc, arch-, archway, bend, bow, hoop, rim, round, tire), arcada (arcade, archway, span). (various references) | |
Romanian | arcui (bend, embow, hollow), arc (arc, bow, curve, limb, prop, spring, vault), viclean (artful, astute, cagey, catlike, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, downy, foxy, guileful, leery, pawky, quick-witted, shifty, sly, slyly, subtle, wily), poznaş (elfish, funny, prankish, rogue, roguish, scapegrace, tricksy, tricky, wag, waggish, wanton, wit), extraordinar (amazing, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never, wonderful), curcubeu (rainbow, sun bow), cupolã (cupola, dome), cochet (archly, coquettish, demurely, flirtatious, saucy, smartly, stylish), bolti (overarch, vault), boltã (alcove, canopy, dome, roof, vault), şmecher (acute, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shaver, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), şiret (artful, canny, cord, crafty, cunning, fox-like, gimp, guileful, lace, pawkily, pawky, sharp, shifty, sly, slyboots, slyly, string, subtle, tricky, wily). (various references) | |
Russian | арка (arc, archway, bow). (various references) | |
Scottish | bogha (a bow, bow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zasvoditi (overarch, vault), taban (sole), svod (dome, vault), obrazovati svod, nevaljao (naughty, rogue, roguish, unkind, unrighteous, wicked), najviši (highest, paramount, top, topgallant, topmost, topping, upmost, utmost), lukav (artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), izbočiti, glavni (basic, capital, cardinal, chief, general, head, key, leading, magistral, main, major, paramount, premier, prime, principal, salient, trunk). (various references) | |
Spanish | arco (arc, archway, bail, bow, hoop, long bow), bóveda (conch, dome, vault). (various references) | |
Swedish | valv (cope, span, vault), båge (arc, bow, curve, frame, rim, slur, tie, wicket). (various references) | |
Thai | โครงสร้างที่มีรูปโค้ง, สำคัญ (chief, great, key, leading, material, red-hot), สิ่งที่มีลักษณะโค้ง (bow), ทำให้โค้ง (bend), ทางเดินใต้ประตูรูปโค้ง, ที่มีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม, มีรูปโค้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | ayak tabanı kemeri (arch of the instep), kamburunu çıkarmak (arch the back, slouch along), şeytan gibi (devilish, diabolic, diabolical, impish, slick, very clever), baş (arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), cin gibi (as fresh as paint, astute, clever, elfin, elvish, gnomish, impish, puckish, quick-witted, sharp-witted, shrewd, wide awake), en iyisi (flagship, honey, plum, the best, the best bet, the finest, topflighter, topnotcher), kabarmak (blister, bloat, bloat out, heave, puff, rise, roughen, surge, swell, tumefy, upsurge, vesicate), şahı, kamburlaştırmak (hog, hump, hump up, hunch, hunch up), yay (arc, bow, coil, coil spring, release, spring, string), kavis (arc, bow, camber, curve, loop, winding), kemer (archway, band, belt, cincture, cove, cummerbund, fascia, girdle, strap, vaulting, waistband, zone), kemer yapmak, kubbelenmek, kurnaz (artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), taban çukuru, kamburlaşmak (hog). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надавати форми арки, перекривати склепінням (overarch), пустотливий (airy, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky), лука сідла (pommel, saddlebow), лукавий (ambidextrous, canny, crafty, hollow-hearted, wicked, wily), арка (arc, archway), аркада (arcade), дуга (arc, bend, bow, horseshoe), меткий (artful, brisk, canny, nimble, saucy), склепіння (arc, barrel, camera, cove, coving, vault, vaulting), небозвід (round, vault), грайливий (facetious, frisky, gamesome, jocose, kittenish, playful, playsome, skittish, wanton), траєкторія (locus, path), цілик (barrier, bearer), хитрий (argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), райдуга (rainbow), спритний (adroit, agile, alert, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), згинати дугою. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tinh quái (mischievous, puckish), tinh nghịch (archly, puckish, wanton), láu (archly, cagey, cagy, deep, trick), khung tò vò, hóm, cửa tò vò hình cung vòm. (various references) | |
Welsh | ysmala (amusing, droll, funny), pontio (bridge), pont (bridge), nen (ceiling, heaven), direidus (mischievous), cellweirus (jocular, playful), bwa (arc, bow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hapsis. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apsis, arcu, arcum, arcus, arcusque, arcuum, cortina, cortinae, cortinam, cortinarum, cortinas, curva, curvabunt, curvant, curvat, curvatis, curvato, curvatus, curvaverit, curvaverunt, curvavi, curvavit, curvem, curvemur, curvo, forix, forix, fornicis, fornicatio, fornicatione, fornicationem, fornicationes, fornicationi, fornicationibus, fornicationis, fornicationum, fornicem. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | arche, voute. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hnika htoimazen ton ouranon sumparhmhn autw kai ote afwrizen ton eautou qronon ep' anemwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quando praeparabat caelos aderam quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whan he greithede heuenes, I was thereat; whan in certein lawe and cumpas he closide the depnesse of watris. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Sa diha nga gitukod niya ang kalangitan didto na ako: Sa gipahamutang niya ang usa ka lingin ibabaw sa nawong sa kahilad-man, |
| Chinese | 他 立 高 天 、 我 在 那 裡 ． 他 在 淵 面 的 周 圍 、 劃 出 圓 圈 、 |
| Croatian | kad je stvarao nebesa, bila sam nazoèna, kad je povlaèio krug na licu bezdana. |
| Danish | Da han grundfæsted Himlen, var jeg hos ham, da han satte Hvælv over Verdensdybet. |
| Dutch | Toen Hij de hemelen bereidde, was Ik daar; toen Hij een cirkel over het vlakke des afgronds beschreef; |
| Finnish | Kun hän taivaat valmisti, olin minä siinä, kun hän veti piirin syvyyden pinnalle, |
| French | Lorsqu`il disposa les cieux, j`étais là; Lorsqu`il traça un cercle à la surface de l`abîme, |
| German | Da er die Himmel bereitete, war ich daselbst, da er die Tiefe mit seinem Ziel faßte. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen te la lè li t'ap mete syèl la nan plas li, lè li t'ap trase liy kote syèl la kontre ak latè a. |
| Hungarian | Mikor készíté az eget, ott valék; mikor felveté a mélységek színén a kerekséget; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku menyaksikan ketika langit dihamparkan, dan cakrawala direntangkan di atas lautan, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tatkala dilengkapkan-Nya segala langit aku telah ada, tatkala disipatkan-Nya bulatan di atas muka tubir. |
| Italian | quando egli fissava i cieli, io ero là; quando tracciava un cerchio sull'abisso; |
| Korean | 하 나 님 이 아 직 땅 도 들 도 세 상 진 토 의 근 원 도 짓 지 아 니 하 셨 을 때 에 라 |
| Maori | I tana whakaturanga i nga rangi, i reira ano ahau: i tana whakaritenga i te awhi mo te mata o te rire; |
