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▸ noun: Any arched ceiling or roof.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
▸ noun: The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
▸ noun: Any cellar or underground storeroom.
▸ noun: Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
▸ noun: The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
▸ noun: (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
▸ noun: (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
▸ noun: (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
▸ verb: (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
▸ verb: (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
▸ noun: An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
▸ noun: (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
▸ noun: (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
▸ noun: (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
▸ noun: (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
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hurdle,
overleap,
Bank vault,
burial vault,
severy,
ossature,
barrel vault,
center,
cell,
cross-vaulting,
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