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vault 音標拼音: [v'ɔlt] n. 窖,地下室,撐竿跳,圓頂
vt. 做成圓拱形,撐竿跳躍
vi. 成穹狀彎曲,跳躍 窖,地下室,撐竿跳,圓頂做成圓拱形,撐竿跳躍成穹狀彎曲,跳躍 vault n 1: a burial chamber ( usually underground) [ synonym: { vault}, { burial vault}] 2: a strongroom or compartment ( often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [ synonym: { vault}, { bank vault}] 3: an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 4: the act of jumping over an obstacle [ synonym: { vault}, { hurdle}] v 1: jump across or leap over ( an obstacle) [ synonym: { vault}, { overleap}] 2: bound vigorouslyVault \ Vault\, v. i. [ Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. voltare to 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]
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, used 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[ add] lt), 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, to 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] 334 Moby Thesaurus words for " vault": Caelus, Fort Knox, Highland fling, air, anabasis, and jump, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archives, archway, armory, arsenal, ascend, ascension, ascent, attic, azure, bank, barrow, basement, bay, beehive tomb, bend, bend back, bin, blue sky, bob up, bonded warehouse, bone house, bookcase, booth, bounce, bound, bow, box, box grave, break water, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bunker, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bursary, buttery, caelum, camber, canopy, canopy of heaven, capriole, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, catacomb, catacombs, cavity, ceilinged roof, cell, cellar, cellule, cenotaph, cerulean, chamber, charnel house, chest, cist, cist grave, clamber, clear, climb, climbing, closet, coffer, coin box, compartment, concameration, concha, conservatory, cope, cove, crate, crib, cromlech, crook, crypt, cupboard, cupola, curl, curve, curvet, decurve, deep six, deflect, demivolt, depository, depot, dock, dokhma, dolmen, dome, drawer, dump, elevation, embow, empyrean, enclosed space, escalade, ether, exchequer, firmament, fisc, flex, float up, fly up, flying jump, fountain, galliard, gelandesprung, geodesic dome, glory hole, godown, gold depository, grand jete, grave, gush, gyring up, handspring, heaven, heavens, high jump, hippety- hop, hold, hole, hollow, hook, hop, house of death, hump, hunch, hurdle, hutch, hyaline, igloo, increase, incurvate, incurve, inflect, jet, jete, jig, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump up, jump- hop, jump- off, keystone, last home, lavolta, leap, leap over, leap up, leapfrog, levitation, library, lift, lifts, locker, long home, long jump, loop, lop, low green tent, low house, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, manger, mastaba, mausoleum, money chest, monstrance, morris, mount, mounting, mummy chamber, narrow house, negotiate, ogive, ossuarium, ossuary, over, overjump, overleap, overskip, passage grave, penny bank, pew, piggy bank, pit, pole vault, pop up, pork barrel, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pyramid, rack, recurve, reflect, reflex, reliquary, repertory, repository, reservoir, resting place, retroflex, rick, rise, rising, rocket, rocketing up, round, running broad jump, running high jump, safe, safe- deposit box, sag, saltation, saut de basque, sepulcher, shaft grave, shelf, shoot up, shooting up, shrine, skewback, ski jump, skip, sky, skyrocket, soar, soaring, span, spout, spring, spring up, spurt, stack, stack room, stall, starry heaven, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, stupa, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, surface, surge, surmount, swag, sweep, takeoff, taking off, tank, the blue, the blue serene, till, tomb, tope, tour jete, tower of silence, treasure house, treasure room, treasure- house, treasury, tumulus, turn, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upstart, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vat, vault of heaven, vault up, vaulting, voussoir, warehouse, welkin, wind, wine cellar, zooming
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