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Found 3 items, similar to Vault.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: vault kubah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vault vault n 1: a burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: burial vault] 2: a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [syn: bank vault] 3: an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 4: the act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: hurdle] vault v 1: jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: overleap] 2: bound vigorously
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vault Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt; see Note, below), n. [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. vo[^u]te, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt a turn, Volute.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. [1913 Webster] The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. --Gray. [1913 Webster] 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. “Charnel vaults.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] The silent vaults of death. --Sandys. [1913 Webster] To banish rats that haunt our vault. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. [1913 Webster] That heaven's vault should crack. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.] A leap or bound. Specifically: (a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet. (b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like. [1913 Webster] Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. [1913 Webster] Barrel vault, Cradle vault, Cylindrical vault, or Wagon vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault , under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church. Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t. Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault. Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant. Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character. Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below. [1913 Webster] Vault \Vault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaulting.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter. See Vault an arch.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. [See Vault, v. i.] To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence. [1913 Webster] I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. --Webster (1623). [1913 Webster] Vault \Vault\, v. i. [Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. volt?re turn. See Vault, n., 4.] [1913 Webster] 1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring. [1913 Webster] Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble. [1913 Webster]

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