Definition of "vault" in Anglais

noun

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.

7. The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.

   • The bank kept their money safe in a large vault.

8. (often figurative) Any archive of past content.

9. (computing) An encrypted digital archive.

10. (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.

11. (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.

12. (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

verb

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.

verb

1. (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.

noun

1. An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.

2. (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.

3. (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.

4. (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.

5. (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.