Archway: alternatives and connections

an arch supported by an abutment

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage…

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put up…

The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isth…

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, fig…

A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate d…

Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The…

Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid ar…

A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.