Vault
[vɔːlt] or [vɔlt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of jumping over an obstacle.
(noun.) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.
(noun.) a burial chamber (usually underground).
(noun.) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables.
(verb.) bound vigorously.
(verb.) jump across or leap over (an obstacle).
Editor: Philip--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
(n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
(n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
(n.) A leap or bound.
(n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
(n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
(n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Typist: Nadine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Arched ceiling, arched roof, continued arch.[2]. Cell, cellar, cavity.[3]. Tomb, crypt, catacomb.[4]. Leap, bound, jump.
v. a. Arch, cover with an arch, arch over.
v. n. Leap, bound, jump, spring, CAPER.
Checked by Jo
Definition
n. an arched roof: a chamber with an arched roof esp. one underground: a cellar: anything vault-like: a leap or spring by means of a pole or by resting the hands on something: the bound of a horse: a jump.—v.t. to shape as a vault: to arch: to roof with an arch: to form vaults in.—v.i. to curvet or leap as a horse: to leap: to exhibit feats of leaping or tumbling.—n. Vaul′tage (Shak.) an arched cellar: vaulted work.—adj. Vaul′ted arched: concave overhead: covered with an arch or vault.—ns. Vaul′ter one who vaults or leaps; Vaul′ting (archit.) vaulted work; Vaul′ting-horse a wooden horse used in gymnasiums for vaulting over.—adj. Vaul′ty (Shak.) arched concave.
Checker: Willa
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a vault, denotes bereavement and other misfortune. To see a vault for valuables, signifies your fortune will surprise many, as your circumstances will appear to be meagre. To see the doors of a vault open, implies loss and treachery of people whom you trust.
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Examples
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I say the best prison is that which is made by the sexton--no dungeon like a church-vault! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The vault had been lately opened to place our Alfred therein. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies--the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There's doors under the church in the Square--black doors, leading into black vaults. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He entered the churches, and foretold to the congregations their speedy removal to the vaults below. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I see, said he, thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And of the vaulted chamber, whispered Locksley. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Some fell dead, many wounded, and the yells of the discomfited assailants vibrated under the vaulted roof of the tunnel, as they retired in disorder. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I vaulted over, and finding myself in a field, kept across it steadily with my back to the road. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Checker: Sumner