vault
vault /v'ɔːlt/ (vaults vaulting vaulted)
1 [N-COUNT]
A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely.
Most of the money was in storage in bank vaults...
2 [N-COUNT]
A vault is a room underneath a church or in a cemetery where people are buried, usually the members of a single family.
He ordered that Matilda's body should be buried in the family vault.
= tomb
3 [N-COUNT]
A vault is an arched roof or ceiling.
...the vault of a great cathedral.
4 [VERB] V n, V prep
If you vault something or vault over it, you jump quickly onto or over it, especially by putting a hand on top of it to help you balance while you jump.
He could easily vault the wall...
Ned vaulted over a fallen tree...pole vault
[N-SING] the N
The pole vault is an athletics event in which athletes jump over a high bar, using a long flexible pole to help lift themselves up.
1 [N-COUNT]
A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely.
Most of the money was in storage in bank vaults...
2 [N-COUNT]
A vault is a room underneath a church or in a cemetery where people are buried, usually the members of a single family.
He ordered that Matilda's body should be buried in the family vault.
= tomb
3 [N-COUNT]
A vault is an arched roof or ceiling.
...the vault of a great cathedral.
4 [VERB] V n, V prep
If you vault something or vault over it, you jump quickly onto or over it, especially by putting a hand on top of it to help you balance while you jump.
He could easily vault the wall...
Ned vaulted over a fallen tree...pole vault
[N-SING] the N
The pole vault is an athletics event in which athletes jump over a high bar, using a long flexible pole to help lift themselves up.