Meaning of vault | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“The decoration of the vault of Sainte-Chapelle was much brighter before its 19th-century restoration.”

“the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault”

“The stalactites held tightly to the cave's vault.”

“His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. To pull the triple headed dog from hell.”

“Had I your tongues and eyes, Il’d vſe them so, That Heauens vault ſhould crack: ſhe’s gone for euer.”

“The ſilent vaults of Death, vnknowne to Light; And Hell it ſelfe, lye naked to his ſight.”

“No bird flew in the blue vault of heaven, no man or beast moved upon the vast countryside which lay before us.”

“God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’”

“to banish rats that haunt our vault”

“Holonyms: catacomb, cuniculus”

“Near-synonyms: crypt, mausoleum”

“Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.”

“The bank kept their money safe in a large vault.”

“Each vault has three segments: “preflight” (the movement from the springboard onto the table), “block” (the moment the hands touch and leave the table) and “postflight” (the flips and twists before landing). […] Handspring and Tsukahara vaults are less common than Yurchenko-style vaults, but some gymnasts specialize in them.”

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