vault

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

vaults

1.
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.
2.
Any arched ceiling or roof.
3.
(figuratively)Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
The stalactites held tightly to the cave's vault.
God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’
4.
The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
5.
Any cellar or underground storeroom.
6.
Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
Holonyms: catacomb, cuniculus
Near-synonyms: crypt, mausoleum
Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
Đồng nghĩa: sepulchre, sepulcher, tomb, crypt, mausoleum
7.
The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
8.
(figuratively, often)(often figurative) Any archive of past content.
9.
(computing) An encrypted digital archive.
10.
(biology, medicine) A membraneless organelle found in most eukaryotic cells first identified in 1986.
11.
(obsolete)An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
12.
(obsolete)An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

vaults

V_ing/Gerund

vaulting

V_ed/pp

vaulted

1.
(transitive)To build as, or cover with a vault.
2.
(transitive)To store in a vault.
3.
(video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
4.
(ambitransitive)To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
The fugitive vaulted the fence to escape.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (spire)), the past participle of volvere (roll, turn). Cognate with vuelta turn and Portuguese volta ("turn"). volute. Displaced native hwealf.