The meaning of Vault

noun

A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.

Usage examples:

The result brings to mind support structures for vaulted arches (for instance gaudi's sagrada famil…

verb

Have the curved shape of an arch.

Usage examples:

A beautiful bridge that arched over a canal

adjective

Deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing.

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A somewhat arch tone of voice

noun

The floor of a building which is partly or entirely below ground level.

Usage examples:

They went down the stairs into the basement

noun

A part of a building that is below the level of the first floor

Usage examples:

The hardware department is in the basement.

verb

Walk or run with leaping strides.

Usage examples:

Louis came bounding down the stairs

noun

A leaping movement towards or over something.

Usage examples:

I went up the steps in two effortless bounds

verb

Form the boundary of; enclose.

Usage examples:

The ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other

noun

An underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient romans.

Usage examples:

While their roman counterparts worshipped in catacombs and underground vaults, the egyptian christi…

noun

A series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past

Usage examples:

They went down into catacombs beneath the church.

noun

A large cave or chamber in a cave.

Usage examples:

The cavern is a natural cave carved into the rock by the sea, and widened into an underground canal…

noun

A large cave

noun

A room below ground level in a house, often used for storing wine or coal.

Usage examples:

The servants led us down into a cellar

verb

Store (wine) in a cellar.

Usage examples:

It is drinkable now but can be cellared for at least five years

adjective

Easy to perceive, understand, or interpret.

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Clear and precise directions

adverb

So as to be out of the way of or away from.

Usage examples:

He leapt clear of the car

verb

Remove an obstruction or unwanted item or items from.

Usage examples:

The drive had been cleared of snow

noun

The action or process of clearing or of being dispersed.

Usage examples:

Cleaning of the machine should include clearance of blockages

noun

If goods are reduced for clearance, they are offered for sale at a lower than usual price so that people will buy them and there will be space for new goods

Usage examples:

A clearance sale, the pilot announced we had received clearance for take off., the sign on the over…

noun

The process by which cheques and other payments are exchanged between customers of different banks

Usage examples:

Foreign-drawn cheques may incur additional bank charges for clearance and currency conversion., two…

noun

An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.

Usage examples:

Thirteen additional art works were packed into the central aisle, adjacent chapels and underground …

noun

A room or rooms under the floor of a church where people are sometimes buried

noun

A rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.

Usage examples:

The dome of st paul's cathedral

noun

One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump.

Usage examples:

A hurdle race

verb

Take part in a hurdle race.

Usage examples:

This gelding hurdled fluently

verb

Push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet.

Usage examples:

The cat jumped off his lap

noun

An act of jumping from a surface by pushing upwards with one's legs and feet.

Usage examples:

In making the short jump across the gully he lost his balance

Move forward by leaps and bounds

verb

Jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force.

Usage examples:

He leapt on to the parapet

noun

A forceful jump or quick movement.

Usage examples:

She came downstairs in a series of flying leaps

verb

Move forward by bounds

noun

A game in which players in turn vault with parted legs over others who are bending down.

Usage examples:

We were playing leapfrog

verb

Perform such a vault.

Usage examples:

They leapfrogged around the courtyard

noun

A children’s game in which each player jumps over another who is bending over

Usage examples:

[ t ] we’re going to leapfrog the rest of the market in technology.

noun

A sports competition in which you hold a long, stiff pole near one end and force it to bend so that when it straightens, it pushes you up over a high bar

noun

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Usage examples:

And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre …

verb

Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.

Usage examples:

Tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries

noun

A stone structure where someone is buried

verb

Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.

Usage examples:

She began to skip down the path

noun

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.

Usage examples:

He moved with a strange, dancing skip

noun

A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse.

Usage examples:

I've salvaged a carpet from a skip

verb

Move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards.

Usage examples:

I sprang out of bed

noun

The season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from march to may and in the southern hemisphere from september to november.

Usage examples:

In spring the garden is a feast of blossom

verb

Move forward by leaps and bounds

noun

A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.

Usage examples:

It is england's oldest borough; athelstan, the first king of england was initially buried here and …

noun

A structure or underground room where someone, esp. an important person, is buried

noun

The crypt of a church.

Usage examples:

The spatial result resembles a cathedral crypt or an undercroft, yet it is all above ground.