Crossword-Solution: ANTA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anta | n. | A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANTA | anagram | ANAT, ATAN, ATNA, NATA, TANA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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Sentences with ANTA (5)
Gesenius would connect it at once with the Egyptian Neith (Nit), and with the Syrian Anaïtis or Tanaïtis;[1195] but the double identification is scarcely tenable, since Anaïtis was, in Egypt, not Neith, but Anta.[1196] The subject is very obscure, and requires further investigation.
One skull, still bound up in many cloths, was found in the Sanja-Huara Cave (province of Anta), which had been twice trepanned, and on which yet two more attempts at trepanation bad been made.
The breadth of its front face is slightly greater than the thickness of the wall; the breadth of a side face depends upon whether or not the anta supports an architrave on that side (Figs.
Below the capital the anta is treated precisely like the wall of which it forms a part; that is to say, its surfaces are plain, except for the simple base-molding, which extends also along the foot of the wall.
Perhaps it is inaccurate in this case to speak of an anta-capital at all, seeing that the anta simply shares the moldings which crown the wall.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 354 times in crossword archives (1942–2017).