Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 86
Archipelago (n.) Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.
Archipelago (n.) A group of many islands in a large body of water.
Archipterygium (n.) (Anat.) The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.
Architect (n.) [C] 建築師；設計師；【喻】締造者，創造者 A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.
Architect (n.) A contriver, designer, or maker.
The architects of their own happiness. -- Milton.
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. -- Coldsmith.
Architect (n.) Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) [syn: {architect}, {designer}].
Architect (n.) One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Architective (a.) Used in building; proper for building. -- Derham. Architectonic
Architectonic (a.) Alt. of Architectonical.
Architectonical (a.) Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." -- Boyle.
These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. -- J. C. Shairp.
Architectonical (a.) Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.
Architectonic (n.) The science of architecture.
Architectonic (n.) The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
Architectonic (a.) Of or pertaining to construction or architecture [syn: tectonic, architectonic].
Architectonics (n.) The science of architecture.
Architectonics (n.) The science of architecture [syn: architectonics, tectonics].
Architector (n.) An architect. [Obs.] -- North.
Architectress (n.) A female architect.
Architectural (a.) 建築學的；有關建築的；符合建築法的 Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- {Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly}, adv.
Architectural (a.) Of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture; "architectural history"; "architectural design".
Architecture (n.) 建築學；建築術 [U]；建築式樣，建築風格 [U] The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
Many other architectures besides Gothic. -- Ruskin.
Architecture (n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. -- Tyndall.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. -- Burnet.
Military architecture, The art of fortifications.
Naval architecture, The art of building ships.
Architecture (n.) An architectural product or work.
Architecture (n.) The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use".
Architecture (n.) The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
Architecture (n.) (Computer science) The structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software" [syn: {computer architecture}, {architecture}].
Architecture, () Design, the way components fit together. The term is used particularly of processors, both individual and in general. "The ARM has a really clean architecture". It may also be used of any complex system, e.g. "software architecture", "network architecture."
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Architecture (n.) [ U ] (B1) 建築學；建築術 The art and practice of designing and making buildings.
// To study architecture.
Architecture (n.) [ U ] (B1) 建築風格 The style in which buildings are made.
// Roman architecture.
Architeuthis (n.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.
Architrave (n.) 【建】柱頂過樑；橫樑；線腳，框緣，楣梁 The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See {Column}.
Architrave (n.) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.
Epistyle (n.) 盤緣，門框及窗等之嵌線 A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called {architrave}.
Architrave (n.) The molding around a door or window.
Architrave (n.) The lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns.
Architraved (a.) Furnished with an architrave.
Archival (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records.
Archives (n. pl. ) of Archive.
Archive (n.) (pl.) {Archives}. (pl.) [P1] 檔案館，檔案保管處；資料庫；檔案；文件；記錄 The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Archive (n.) (pl.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
Archive (n.) A depository containing historical records and documents.
Archive (v.) 把……存檔；把……收集歸檔 Put into an archive [syn: {archive}, {file away}].
Archivist (n.) A keeper of archives or records.
Archivolt (n.) The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.
Archivolt (n.) More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.
Archlute (n.) Alt. of Archilute.
Archilute (n.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.
Archly (adv.) In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.
Archmarshal (n.) The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.
Archness (n.) The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.
Archon (n.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.
Archonship (n.) The office of an archon.
Archontate (n.) An archon's term of office.
Archonts (p. pr.) The group including man alone.
Archprelate (n.) An archbishop or other chief prelate.
Archpresbyter (n.) Same as Archpriest.
Archpresbytery (n.) The absolute dominion of presbytery.
Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
Archprimate (n.) The chief primate.
Arch stone () A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
Archtraitor (n.) A chief or transcendent traitor.
Archtreasurer (n.) A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
Archway (n.) A way or passage under an arch.
Archwife (n.) A big, masculine wife.
Archwise (adv.) Arch-shaped.
Archy (a.) 拱形的 Arched; as, archy brows.
archy (suf.)（構成名詞）表示統治，管理（如：anarchy, hierachy） A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. {-arch}.
Arciform (a.) Having the form of an arch; curved.
Arcograph (n.) An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.
Arctation (n.) (Med.) 孔道狹窄 Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.
Arctic (a.) 北極的 Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.
Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the equator, 23 [deg] 28' from the north pole. This and the antarctic circle are called the polar circles, and between these and the poles lie the frigid zones. See {Zone}.
Arctic (n.) 北極地帶；北極圈 The arctic circle.
Arctic (n.) （常複數）【美】禦寒防水套鞋 A warm waterproof overshoe. [U. S.]
Arctic (a.) 北極的 Of or relating to the Arctic; "the Arctic summer" [syn: {north-polar}, {Arctic}].
Arctic (a.) 極寒的 Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: {arctic}, {frigid}, {gelid}, {glacial}, {icy}, {polar}]；[ant: {torrid}].
Arctic (n.) The regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole [syn: {Arctic}, {Arctic Zone}, {North Frigid Zone}].
Arctic (n.) A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: {arctic}, {galosh}, {golosh}, {rubber}, {gumshoe}].
Arctisca (n. pl.) A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.
Arctogeal (a.) Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.
Arctoidea (n. pl.) A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.
Arcturus (n.) 【天】大角星；是牧夫座中最明亮的恆星 A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes.
Note: Arcturus has sometimes been incorrectly used as the name of the constellation, or even of Ursa Major.
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons [Rev. Ver.: "the Bear with her train"]. -- Job xxxviii. 32.
Arcturus (n.) The 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth.
Arcturus (n.) Bear-keeper, the name given by the ancients to the brightest star in the constellation Bootes. In the Authorized Version (Job 9:9; 38:32) it is the rendering of the Hebrew word _'ash_, which probably designates the constellation the Great Bear. This word ('ash) is supposed to be derived from an Arabic word meaning night-watcher, because the Great Bear always revolves about the pole, and to our nothern hemisphere never sets.
Arcturus (n.) A gathering together.
Arcual (a.) 拱形的 Of or pertaining to an arc.
Arcuate (a.) 拱形的；【建】拱式的 Alt. of Arcuated
Arcuated (a.) Bent or curved in the form of a bow.
Arcuately (adv.) In the form of a bow.
Arcuation (n.) 彎曲；【建】拱門式拱頂之使用 The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. -- Coxe.
Arcuation (n.) (Hort.) A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. -- Chambers.
Arcubalist (n.) A crossbow. -- Fosbroke.
Arcubalister (n.) A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. -- Camden.
Arcubus (n.) 【史】火繩槍 See {Arquebus}. [Obs.] [syn: {harquebus}].
-ard () Alt. of -art.
-art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.
Art, () The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.
Art (n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.
Blest with each grace of nature and of art. -- Pope.
Art (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.
Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. -- J. F. Genung.
Art (n.) The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.
The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea. -- Addison.
Art (n.) The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.
Art (n.) pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. -- Pope.
Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. -- Goldsmith.
Art (n.) Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic]
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. -- Pope.
Art (n.) Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.
Art (n.) Skillful plan; device.
They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. -- Macaulay.
Art (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all. -- Shak.
Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. -- Crabb.
Art (n.) The black art; magic. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Art and part (Scots Law), Share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.
Note: The arts are divided into various classes.
The useful arts, The mechanical arts, or The industrial arts, Are those in which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and utensils. These are called trades.
The fine arts, Are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture.
The liberal arts (artes liberales, the higher arts, which, among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue) were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history, etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor of arts.
In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity. -- Irving.
Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity. See Science.
Art (n.) The products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" [syn: art, fine art].
Art (n.) The creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" [syn: art, artistic creation, artistic production].
Art (n.) A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" [syn: art, artistry, prowess].
Art (n.) Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book" [syn: artwork, art, graphics, nontextual matter].
ART, () Adaptive Resonance Theory (NN)
ART, () Advanced Resolution Technology (Minolta)
ART, () A real-time functional language. It timestamps each data value when it was created.
["Applicative Real-Time Programming", M. Broy, PROC IFIP 1983, N-H]. (1996-01-15)
ART. () The power of doing. something not taught by nature or instinct.
Johnson. Eunomus defines art to be a collection of certain rules for doing anything in a set form. Dial. 2, p. 74. The Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales, q.v., defines it in nearly the same terms.
ART. () The arts are divided into mechanical and liberal arts. The mechanical arts are those which require more bodily than mental labor; they are usually called trades, and those who pursue them are called artisans or mechanics. The liberal are those which have for the sole or principal object, works of the mind, and those who are engaged in them are called artists. Pard. Dr. Com. n. 35.
ART. () The act of Congress of July 4, 1836, s. 6, in describing the subjects of patents, uses the term art. The sense of this word in its usual acceptation is perhaps too comprehensive. The thing to be patented is not a mere elementary, principle, or intellectual discovery, but a principle put in practice, and applied to some art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. 4 Mason, 1.
ART. () Copper-plate printing on the back of a bank note, is an art for which a patent may be granted. 4 Wash. C. C. R. 9.
ART, (n.) This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.
One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split,
Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests.
Ardassine (n.) (Uncountable) (Archaic) A very fine sort of Persian silk.
Ardency (n.) 熱心 Heat. [R.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Ardency (n.) Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.
Ardent (a.) 熱烈的；激動的；熱心的；熱切的；忠誠的；燃燒的；熾熱的 Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
Ardent (a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. -- Dryden.
Ardent (a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.
An ardent and impetuous race. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Burning; hot; fiery; glowing; intense; fierce; vehement; eager; zealous; keen; fervid; fervent; passionate; affectionate.
Ardent (a.) Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent}, {fervent}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned}, {perfervid}, {torrid}].
Ardent (a.) Characterized by strong enthusiasm; "ardent revolutionaries"; "warm support" [syn: {ardent}, {warm}].
Ardent (a.) Glowing or shining like fire; "from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes"- Alexander Pope; "frightened by his ardent burning eyes."
Ardently (adv.) In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.
Ardently (adv.) In an ardent manner; "the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired."
Ardentness (n.) Ardency. [R.]
Ardor (n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
Ardor (n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.
Ardor (n.) pl. Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. [Thus used by Milton.]
Syn: Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor.
Ardor (n.) A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, ardour, elan, zeal].
Ardor (n.) Intense feeling of love [syn: ardor, ardour].
Ardor (n.) Feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness].
Ardor (n.) The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Arduous (a.) Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
Those arduous paths they trod. -- Pope.
Arduous (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.
Syn: Difficult; trying; laborious; painful; exhausting.
Usage: Arduous, Hard, Difficult. Hard is simpler, blunter, and more general in sense than difficult; as, a hard duty to perform, hard work, a hard task, one which requires much bodily effort and perseverance to do. Difficult commonly implies more skill and sagacity than hard, as when there is disproportion between the means and the end. A work may be hard but not difficult. We call a thing arduous when it requires strenuous and persevering exertion, like that of one who is climbing a precipice; as, an arduous task, an arduous duty. "It is often difficult to control our feelings; it is still harder to subdue our will; but it is an arduous undertaking to control the unruly and contending will of others."
Arduous (a.) Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome].
Arduous (a.) Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here" -- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: arduous, straining, strenuous].
Arduous (a.) Difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary."
Arduously (adv.) In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
Arduously (adv.) In an arduous manner; "they worked arduously."
Arduousness (n.) The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.
Arduousness (n.) Extreme effortfulness [syn: arduousness, strenuousness].
Ardurous (a.) Burning; ardent. [R.]
Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. -- Cary.
Are (n.) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
Are () The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.
Are (n.) A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar].
ARE, () All Routes Explorer (ATM).
ARE. () A French measure of surface. This is a square, the sides of which are of the length of ten metres. The are is equal to 1076.441 square feet. Vide Measure.
Areas (n. pl. ) of Area.
Area (n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
Area (n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
Area (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
Area (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
Area (n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Area (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
Area (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
Aread (v. t.) Alt. of Areed.
Areed (v. t.) To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.]
Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. -- Spenser.
Areed (v. t.) To read. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Areed (v. t.) To counsel, advise, warn, or direct.
But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! -- Milton.