VAULT

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

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (outhouse or lavatory): See bathroom

• (gymnastic apparatus): vaulting table

Hyponyms

• 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

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.

Noun

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

VAULT

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