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vault

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1. vault - Noun

2. vault - Verb

Meaning

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

The canopy of heaven; the sky.

A leap or bound.

The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.

A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.

To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. Albert Finney

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Percy Bysshe Shelley

A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me. Anna Akhmatova

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved. Sergei Bubka

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album. Jerry Goldsmith

I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train... William S. Burroughs

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