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kaari — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arc noun A curved line, especially part of the edge of a circle.
  • arch noun A curved structure that spans an opening, typically supporting the weight above it.
  • bow noun A weapon made from a curved piece of flexible material strung with a cord, used to shoot arrows.
  • bridge noun A structure built to carry a road, railway, or path across a river, valley, or other obstacle.
  • crescent noun The curved shape of the moon when it is partly illuminated, narrowing to points at each end.
  • curve noun A smoothly bending line, with no sharp corners.
  • division noun The act of splitting something into separate parts, or one of those resulting parts.
  • edge noun The outer boundary or line where something ends.
  • fan noun A device, hand-held or powered, that moves air to cool someone or something down.
  • lob verb To throw, hit, or kick something in a slow, high arc.
  • phylum noun A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  • rib noun One of the curved bones that run from the spine around toward the breastbone, forming the cage that protects the chest.
  • vault noun A strong, secure room, especially one used to store money, valuables, or important records.

Senses

kaari is used for these senses in English:

  • arch An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
  • bow A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
  • bridge (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
  • crescent A curved pastry.
  • crescent A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
  • curve (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  • division (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
  • edge (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.

arc — full definition

  1. noun A curved line, especially part of the edge of a circle.
  2. noun A story's overall shape or progression, especially a character's emotional or moral development.
  3. verb To move or curve along a path shaped like an arc.
  4. noun A glowing discharge of electricity jumping across a gap, as in welding.

arch — full definition

  1. noun A curved structure that spans an opening, typically supporting the weight above it.
  2. verb To bend into a curved shape.
  3. adj Deliberately playful, knowing, or mischievous, often in tone or expression.
  4. adj Chief or foremost, used as a prefix in words like "archenemy" or "archbishop".

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