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squinch::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | squint |
| Type of | make a face, grimace, pull a face |
squinch::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | arch |
| Has types | trumpet arch |
Examples of squinch
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It might be faint at first, and it helps some to squinch your eyes closed.
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The invention of pendentives superseded the squinch technique.
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In moments of profound emotion, his eyebrows squinch.
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Do you like sour things that make you squinch and pucker?
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The Persians solved the problem of constructing a circular dome on a square building by the squinch.
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You'd think a face couldn't squinch that way.
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The squinch was probably invented in Iran.
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Not long ago, when Hannah was a wrinkly, squinch-faced newborn and I was a sore, exhausted new mother, that tiny onesie swallowed her.
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The squinch was invented in Iran.
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- A small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
- Crouch down
- Flinch: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- Squint: cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; "The children squinted so as to scare each other"
- (squinched) having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes"
- A squinch in architecture is a piece of construction used for filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a proper base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. It was the primitive solution of this problem, the perfected one being eventually provided by the pendentive. ...
- A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure; as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room; to scrunch up (one's face)
- Small arched vault supporting each corner of a dome over a square space.
- In architecture, a device to effect a transition from a polygonal base to a circular *dome (see fig. 11.12).
