abutment
drift
geostatic arch
cove
relieving arch
flyer
screwback
stilted arch
supercanopy
impost
arc-boutant
flying buttress
sail vault
pier arch
pillar
column
headstone
voussoir
key
barrel vault
butment
arching
keystone
arch
concameration
colonnade
arcade
suspension scale
camber
skewback
trefoil arch
bay
higharched
oblique arch
rampant
drum
mast
vaultful
crown
skew arch
intrados
vaulting
bell arch
straight arch
pendentive
pier
camber arch
mat slab
palmation
archwise
vault
extrados
centrum
safety arch
scoinson arch
surmounted
nogging
Gothic arch
counterarch
bed
center
sconcheon arch
pendent
scalebeam
newel post
stilted
floor
overarching
pinnacle
standard
swing bridge
abutment arch
work-board
updoming
workboard
rise
plinth
span
subarch
hydrostatic lock
scheme arch
surbase
flying arch
springer
retaining wall
midarch
lysis
queen truss
curb
coign
galleried
cross vault
brace
higharched
rampant
archwise
surmounted
pendent
stilted
overarching
galleried
archwise
abutment
drift
geostatic arch
cove
relieving arch
flyer
screwback
stilted arch
supercanopy
impost
arc-boutant
flying buttress
sail vault
pier arch
pillar
column
headstone
voussoir
key
barrel vault
butment
arching
keystone
arch
concameration
colonnade
arcade
suspension scale
camber
skewback
trefoil arch
bay
oblique arch
drum
mast
vaultful
crown
skew arch
intrados
vaulting
bell arch
straight arch
pendentive
pier
camber arch
mat slab
palmation
vault
extrados
centrum
safety arch
scoinson arch
nogging
Gothic arch
counterarch
bed
center
sconcheon arch
scalebeam
newel post
floor
pinnacle
standard
swing bridge
abutment arch
work-board
updoming
workboard
rise
plinth
span
subarch
hydrostatic lock
scheme arch
flying arch
springer
overarching
retaining wall
midarch
lysis
queen truss
curb
coign
cross vault
surbase
brace
noun
- The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
- A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
- The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
- A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
- The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
- That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
- The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
- Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
- The state of abutting.
noun
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
noun
- A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
- A friend; a mate.
verb
noun
- An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- A machine that flies.
- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A leap or jump.
- A risky investment or other venture.
- A fast-moving person or thing.
- A false start
- A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
verb
noun
- A masonry abutment on an arch that is wedge-shaped in order to transmit the thrust downward.
- A tightening screw on the back of a hand tool.
- A type of case for a pocket watch where the mechanism is accessed by a removable back plate that screws onto the back of the case. Also, a watch that has such a case.
- A powerful shot that imparts a spin to the ball.
- A type of propeller in which the blades are angled to produce a motion similar to threading a screw. Also, the angle of the blades on such a propeller.
- The period of screw rotation during injection molding when the plastic can flow into the mold.
- An industrial digging machine that uses a large screw at the back to drill into the ground.
- A hook-shapped attachment for an earring that sits behind the earlobe and tightens with a screw. Also, an earring that uses this type of attachment.
- The effect of putting backspin on the cue ball.
- A mechanism for attaching a small item to clothing that operates by a post which goes through the cloth and a small backing plate that screws to the post. Also, the medal, tie pin, button, etc. that uses this type of attachment.
- A half-volley executed by holding the racket loosely and swinging it straight at the ball.
noun
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a fundamental principle or practice
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a prominent supporter
noun
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a line of units following one after another
- a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- a vertical array of numbers or other information
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a page or text that is vertically divided
- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
noun
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- something crucial for explaining
- pitch of the voice
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of answers to a test
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
adj
verb
noun
- An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- An inverted U shape.
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
verb
adj
noun
- An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
- The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
- The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
- The curvature of an airfoil.
- A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
- A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
verb
noun
- The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
- An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
- A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
- Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
- A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
- An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
- A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
- Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
- Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
- A bay platform.
- A bay window.
- The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
- A horse of this color.
- A bank or dam to keep back water.
- The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
- A tract covered with bay trees.
adj
verb
adj
- Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
adv
noun
- Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A tip; a piece of information.
- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- Synonym of construction barrel
- The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
verb
- To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- To beat a drum.
- To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- The highest part of an arch.
- A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
- A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
- A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
- The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- The highest part of a hill.
- Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- The top of a tree.
- The part of a tooth above the gums.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
- A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
- A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
adj
verb
- In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To hit on the head.
- To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
- To declare (someone) a winner.
noun
- A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
- A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
- A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
- A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
noun
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- Any archive of past content.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- An encrypted digital archive.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
verb
noun
- The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- Marriage.
- The taut surface of a trampoline.
- Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- Sexual activity.
- A garden plot.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- Time spent in a bed.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- One's place of sleep or rest.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
verb
- To settle, as machinery.
- To go to bed.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- To place in a bed.
- To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- To put oneself to sleep.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
noun
- A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
- A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
- The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
- A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
- The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
- The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
- The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
- The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
- One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
verb
- To give (something) a central basis.
- To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
- To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
- To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
adj
adj
- Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- Pending in various senses.
adj
- Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure.
- Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements.
- Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts.
noun
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- A storey/story of a building.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
verb
noun
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- The sheth of a plough.
- A collar of mail protecting the neck.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- A large drinking cup.
- standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- A musical work of established popularity.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- Grade level in primary education.
intj
adj
- Having a manual transmission.
- Conforming to the standard variety.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
noun
- The height of an arch or a step.
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
verb
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
- A locking mechanism that uses hydrostatic pressure in order to achieve a seal.
- A lock for raising and lowering boats on a canal or waterway that operates by using pressurized water to flood or drain the level inside the lock.
- A condition that arises when a device which compresses gases seizes up because of the infiltration of liquid, which prevents further compression.
verb
noun
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
verb
noun
verb
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
noun
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
- A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- The mouth of a shaft.
English words for 'The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.'
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