vault, hurdle
(noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle
vault
(noun) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
vault, burial vault
(noun) a burial chamber (usually underground)
vault, bank vault
(noun) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
vault
(verb) bound vigorously
vault, overleap
(verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vault (plural vaults)
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.
(gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
(gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
(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, euphemism) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
• (outhouse or lavatory): See bathroom
• (gymnastic apparatus): vaulting table
• barrel vault
• cloister vault
• compound vault
• cross vault
• cylindrical vault
• decapartite vault
• dodecapartite vault
• domical vault
• groin vault
• oblique vault
• octopartite vault
• panel vault
• polygonal vault
• quadripartite vault
• quinquepartite vault
• ribbed vault
• segmental vault
• septempartite vault
• sexpartite vault
• star vault
• stilted vault
• tripartite vault
• Welsh vault
vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)
(transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)
(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.
vault (plural vaults)
An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
(equestrianism) synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
(gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
Source: Wiktionary
Vault, n. Etym: [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. voûte, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt a turn, Volute.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.
2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." Milton. The silent vaults of death. Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift.
3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. Shak.
4. Etym: [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.]
Definition: A leap or bound. Specifically: -- (a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet. (b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. Barrel, Cradle, Cylindrical, or Wagon, vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.
– Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.
– Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
– Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.
– Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.
– Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
Vault, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaulting.] Etym: [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. voûter. See Vault an arch.]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court. The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. Sir W. Scott.
2. Etym: [See Vault, v. i.]
Definition: To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence. I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. Webster (1623).
Vault, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. volt turn. See Vault, n., 4.]
1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. Shak. Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. Dryden. Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. Addison.
2. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
