Sekirov Dictionary

vault

UK /vɒlt/US /vɑlt/

noun18

  1. a room built to be safe from thieves, where money and other things of value are kept, for example in a bank or a museum
  2. The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
  3. Any cellar or underground storeroom.
  4. Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
  5. An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
  6. Any arched ceiling or roof.
  7. (figurative) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly caves and the sky or firmament.
  8. An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
  9. A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
  10. An encrypted digital archive.
  11. (figurative) Any archive of past content.
  12. A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
  13. An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
  14. A membraneless organelle found in most eukaryotic cells first identified in 1986.
  15. Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
  16. (no longer used) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
  17. (no longer used) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
  18. (euphemistic, no longer used) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

verb4

  1. To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
  2. To store in a vault.
  3. To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
  4. To build as, or cover with a vault.
forms

vaulted · vaulting · vaulteth · vaults · vaultest

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