vault
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /vɒlt/, /vɔːlt/
- (US) IPA(key): /vɑlt/, /vɔlt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlt, -ɒlt
- Homophone: volt (in some accents)
- The l was originally suppressed in pronunciation.
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”). Doublet of volute.
NounEdit
vault (plural vaults)
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- The decoration of the vault of Sainte-Chapelle was much brighter before its 19th-century restoration.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- The stalactites held tightly to the cave's vault.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- 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.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii], page 308:
- Had I your tongues and eyes, Il’d vſe them so,
That Heauens vault ſhould crack: ſhe’s gone for euer.
- 1636, George Sandys, “A Paraphrase upon Job” in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems:
- The ſilent vaults of Death, vnknowne to Light;
And Hell it ſelfe, lye naked to his ſight.
- The ſilent vaults of Death, vnknowne to Light;
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[1]:
- No bird flew in the blue vault of heaven, no man or beast moved upon the vast countryside which lay before us.
- 1985, Bible (NJB), Genesis, 1:6:
- God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean
- to banish rats that haunt our vault
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- The bank kept their money safe in a large vault.
- (often figuratively) Any archive of past content.
- (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, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
SynonymsEdit
- (outhouse or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
- (gymnastic apparatus): vaulting table
HyponymsEdit
- 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
TranslationsEdit
arched masonry structure
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arched ceiling or roof
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figuratively: anything resembling a vault
crypt — see crypt
underground storeroom
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underground burial chamber
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secure area for valuables
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gymnastics: apparatus
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gymnastics: movement
computing: encrypted digital archive
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VerbEdit
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.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:
- The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
TranslationsEdit
to build as or cover with vault
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.
VerbEdit
vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over.
- The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
- The fugitive vaulted the fence to escape.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to jump
NounEdit
vault (plural vaults)
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
TranslationsEdit
a jump
gymnastics event
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