ARCHIVOLT

  

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ARCHIVOLT

Definition: ARCHIVOLT

ARCHIVOLT

Noun

1. More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.

2. The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Archivolt \Ar"chi*volt\, noun. [French expression archivolte, from Italian archivolto; prefix archi- volto vault, arch. See Vault.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: ARCHIVOLT

English words defined with "ARCHIVOLT": Hood moulding. (references)

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Modern Translation: ARCHIVOLT

Language Translations for "ARCHIVOLT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

archivolto (archway). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

archivoltay

   

Spanish

  

archivolta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ARCHIVOLT

Derivations

Words beginning with "ARCHIVOLT": archivolts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ARCHIVOLT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: archivo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ARCHIVOLT"

Words rhyming with "ARCHIVOLT" (pronounced 'Ar"chi*volt'): kilovolt, Megavolt, Microvolt. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ARCHIVOLT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-l-o-r-t-v"

-1 letter: acrolith, tovarich, vortical.

-2 letters: chariot, chorial, haricot, trochal, trochil, voltaic.

-3 letters: aortic, archil, caroli, cavort, chalot, chiral, chital, choral, citola, citral, coital, harlot, havior, lictor, liroth, lochia, lorica, orchil, rialto, rictal, tailor, thoria, thoric, viator, victor.

-4 letters: actor, airth, aitch, altho, carol, cavil, chair, chart, chiao, chiro, choir, claro, clavi, cloth, coati, coral, coria.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-l-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: archivolts.

 

+4 letters: clavichordist.

 

+5 letters: clavichordists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ARCHIVOLT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 52 43 48 49 56 4F 4C 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    -.-.    ....    ..    ...-    ---    .-..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010010 01000011 01001000 01001001 01010110 01001111 01001100 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#86 &#79 &#76 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0043 0048 0049 0056 004F 004C 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

355237424356494654

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Non-English Dictionaries with "ARCHIVOLT"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspagnolo, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationinglese, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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