vault

IPA: vˈɔɫt

noun

  • An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
  • Any arched ceiling or roof.
  • (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
  • The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
  • Any cellar or underground storeroom.
  • Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
  • The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
  • (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
  • (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
  • (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
  • (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
  • (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
  • An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
  • (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
  • (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
  • (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
  • (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

verb

  • (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
  • (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
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Examples of "vault" in Sentences

  • The nave was vaulted.
  • The fresco on the vault is lost.
  • In 1842 the nave was extended and vaulted.
  • The nave and the aisles were cross vaulted.
  • Only the vault construction of the cellar remained.
  • The nave and apse of the church are barrel vaulted.
  • The crown of the famous parabolic vault is a hyperboloid.
  • It was originally vaulted at the second floor and the roof.
  • They deposited the diamonds in the vault of the Bank of California.
  • The postage vault can store and keep track of money in the postage vault.

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