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单词 vaulting
释义

vault1 /völt or earlier vöt/

noun
  1. An arched roof or ceiling
  2. A chamber with an arched roof or ceiling, esp underground
  3. A cellar
  4. A wine cellar
  5. A burial chamber
  6. A fortified room for storing valuables in a bank, etc
  7. A cavern
  8. Anything vaultlike such as the vault of heaven, or the cranial vault the dome of the skull
transitive verb
  1. To shape as a vault
  2. To roof with an arch or vault
  3. To form vaults in
intransitive verb

To curve in a vault

ORIGIN: OFr vaute, vaulte, voute, volte (Fr voûte), from L volvere, volūtum to roll

vaulˈtage noun

  1. An arched cellar (Shakespeare)
  2. A cavern
  3. A range of vaults
  4. Vaulted work

vaulˈted adjective

  1. Arched
  2. Concave overhead
  3. Covered with an arch or vault

vaulˈting noun

Vaulted work

vaulˈty adjective (Shakespeare)

Vaultlike

vault2 /völt or earlier vöt/

intransitive verb
  1. To leap, esp by springing initially onto one or both hands, or by using a pole, to get extra height
  2. To achieve great heights of success, fame, etc
transitive verb
  1. To spring or leap over, esp by this means
  2. To cause (someone or something) to attain great success, etc
noun

An act of vaulting

ORIGIN: Appar OFr volter to leap

vaultˈer noun

vaultˈing noun adjective

  1. Relating to or for vaulting
  2. (of eg ambition) inordinate, overweening

vaultˈing-horse noun

A piece of gymnastic apparatus for vaulting over

vaultˈing-house noun (obsolete)

A brothel

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