Arch (n.) Any part of a curved line. |
Arch (n.) 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 |
Arch (n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve. |
Arch (n.) Any place covered by an arch |
Arch (n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch |
Arch (v. t.) To cover with an arch or arches. |
Arch (v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch. |
Arch (v. i.) To form into an arch |
Arch- () A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend. |
Arch (a.) Chief |
Arch (a.) Cunning or sly |
Arch (n.) A chief. |
-arch (a.) A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler). |
Arch brick () A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch. |
Arch stone () A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch |
Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal |
Cast steel () See Cast steel, under Steel. |
Engineering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engineer |
Engineering (n.) Originally, the art of managing engines |
Solid (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies |
Solid (a.) Not hollow |
Solid (a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions |
Solid (a.) Firm |
Solid (a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word |
Solid (a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem |
Solid (a.) Sound |
Solid (a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root |
Solid (a.) Impenetrable |
Solid (a.) Not having the lines separated by leads |
Solid (a.) United |
Solid (n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles |
Solid (n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness |
Steel (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon. |
Steel (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel |
Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc. |
Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives. |
Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint. |
Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness |
Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine. |
Steel (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel |
Steel (n.) To make hard or strong |
Steel (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities. |
Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to structure |
Structural (a.) Of or pertaining to organit structure |