Crossword-Solution: ENTASIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Entasis | n. | A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column. |
| Entasis | n. | Same as Entasia. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENTASIS | anagram | ESTAINS, NASTIES, SAINTES, SATINES, SESTINA, STAINES, TANSIES, TISANES |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ENTASIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CURVE of column | 1 answer |
| Column-shaft swelling | 1 answer |
| Convexity in the shaft of a column | 1 answer |
| Outward curve of the shaft of a column. | 1 answer |
| Slight curve in the shaft of a column. | 1 answer |
| architectural convexity | 1 answer |
| slightly convex curve given to the shaft of a structure | 1 answer |
| COLUMN, curve of | 2 answers |
| ARCHITECTURAL curve | 14 answers |
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Sentences with ENTASIS (5)
The illustration is unfortunately not quite correct, since it gives the shaft a uniform diameter for about one third of its height.] In some early Doric temples, as the one at Assos in Asia Minor, there is no entasis.
The diminution of the shaft is naturally less than in the Doric, and the entasis, where any has been detected, is exceedingly slight.
And they are an illustration of what was a marked characteristic of all classic architecture, which shows a slight curvature or entasis in its long lines.
The belfry windows are generally found to consist of two semicircular-headed lights, divided by a kind of rude balluster shaft of peculiar character, the entasis of which is sometimes encircled with rude annulated mouldings; this shaft supports a plain oblong impost or abacus, which extends through the whole of the thickness of the wall, or nearly so, and from this one side of the arch of each light springs.
The entasis of columns and curvature of what would ordinarily be straight lines is familiar to all students of architecture.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–1986).