Definitions for vault

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vault vault

Spelling: [vawlt]

IPA: /vɔlt/

Vault is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in vault (altuv).

Definitions for vault

noun

1. an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
2. an arched structure resembling a vault.
3. a space, chamber, or passage enclosed by a vault or vaultlike structure, especially one located underground.
4. an underground chamber, as a cellar or a division of a cellar.
5. a room or compartment, often built of or lined with steel, reserved for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, especially such a place in a bank.
6. a strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc.
7. a burial chamber.
8. Anatomy. an arched roof of a cavity.
9. something likened to an arched roof:
10. the act of vaulting.
11. a leap of a horse; curvet.
12. Gymnastics. a running jump over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, usually finishing with an acrobatic dismount.

verb (used with object)

1. to construct or cover with a vault.
2. to make in the form of a vault; arch.
3. to extend or stretch over in the manner of an arch; overarch:
4. to store in a vault:
5. to leap over:
6. to cause to leap over or surpass others:

verb (used without object)

1. to curve or bend in the form of a vault.
2. to leap or spring, as to or from a position or over something:
3. to leap with the hands supported by something, as by a horizontal pole.
4. Gymnastics. to leap over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
5. to arrive at or achieve something as if by a spring or leap:

Origin of vault

1300-50; (noun) alteration of Middle English voute Old French vou(l)te, volte Vulgar Latin *volvita, for Latin volūta, noun use of feminine past participle of Latin volvere to turn (see

Examples for vault

Coinbase and vault of Satoshi both allow users to purchase Bitcoin with dollars and other fiat currency.

With that he locked the vault, and returned to the upper air.

Arthur's answer was to put on his hat, and vault away with the paper.

vault of Satoshi, a Canadian based currency exchange, was surprised at the tech savvy seniors who have signed up.

Only the cashier and Alan Porter knew that it was in the vault.

But the shadow was not that of an archway; it was that of a vault.

It was, he writes, like “looking into the vault of the universe.”

In a vault near that of Kilor's there is a great spool of it.

They are simply repositories of capital, like so many gold bars in the vault of a bank.

We found the Regent dressing in the vault he used as his wardrobe.