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vault
n. arch, dome; room with an arch or a dome; secure room for storing money or valuables; underground burial chamber; pole vaulting
 
v. leap up or over (especially with the help of the hands or a vaulting pole); rising up suddenly (as to fame or success); create a vaulted structure; be in the form of a vaulted structure


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Vault
To vault means to jump over something.Vault may also refer to:Vault (architecture), any architecture arched structure forming a ceiling or roof over the casemates, galleries or other spacesVault (comics), an underground facility in the Marvel UniverseVault (company), formerly Vault Reports, a recruitment companyVault (Fallout), underground nuclear blast shelters in the Fallout computer game seriesVault (gymnastics), an artistic gymnastics apparatus, the standard of which changed from a vaulting horse to a vaulting tableVault (mathematics), a mathematical constructVault (revision control system), a revision control system made by SourceGearVault (sculpture), a sculpture by Ron Robertson-SwannVault (soft drink), a soft drink, a Def Leppard compilation albumVault, ex-drummer of the band Dark Lunacy
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Vault
Vault, n 1. an anatomic part resembling an arched roof or dome, such as the vault of a denture. n 2. [more]Vault - Community and Resources

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vault
Noun
1. a burial chamber (usually underground)
(synonym) burial vault
(hypernym) burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
(hyponym) charnel house, charnel
2. a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
(synonym) bank vault
(hypernym) strongroom
(part-holonym) bank, bank building
3. an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
(hypernym) roof
(hyponym) barrel vault
(part-meronym) lunette, fenestella
4. the act of jumping over an obstacle
(synonym) hurdle
(hypernym) jump, jumping
(derivation) overleap
Verb
1. jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
(synonym) overleap
(hypernym) jump, leap, bound, spring
(hyponym) hurdle
(derivation) hurdle
2. bound vigorously
(hypernym) jump, leap, bound, spring
(derivation) vaulter, pole vaulter, pole jumper


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Vault
(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.
  
 
(n.)
The canopy of heaven; the sky.
  
 
(n.)
The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
  
 
(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.)
A leap or bound.
  
 
(n.)
A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
  

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