ARCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arched mean? 

• ARCHED (adjective)
  The adjective ARCHED has 2 senses:

1. constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches

2. forming or resembling an arch

  Familiarity information: ARCHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

an arched passageway

Pertainym:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Forming or resembling an arch

Synonyms:

arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed

Context example:

an arched ceiling

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

 Context examples 

The paws are large and round, with arched toes and strong, curved nails.

(Irish Wolfhound, NCI Thesaurus)

In the high-arched passage, paved with stone, which already she had trodden with peculiar awe, she well remembered the doors of which the general had given no account.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Feet are cat-like, with arched toes and well furnished with hair.

(Gordon Setter, NCI Thesaurus)

The room was very spacious, lighted on one side by three arched and mullioned windows, while opposite was a huge fireplace in which a pile of faggots was blazing merrily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Gothic arched door led to a worn stone staircase.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My companion let down the window, and I caught a glimpse of a low, arched doorway with a lamp burning above it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The feet are round and cat-like with tight, arched toes.

(English Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

The arched strip of hair on the bony ridge above each eye socket.

(Eyebrow, NCI Thesaurus)

An arched blood vessel arising from the terminal portion of the radial artery and the ulnar artery located on the bases of the metacarpal bones.

(Deep Palmar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)