vault

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vault1 /vɔːlt $ vɒːlt/ noun [countableC]

1. TBBa room with thick walls and a strong door where money, jewels etc are kept to prevent them from being stolen or damaged 〔贵重财物的〕保管库，保险库；金库

2. MXa room where people from the same family are buried, often under the floor of a church 〔常指教堂地下某一家族的〕墓穴，墓室

3. JUMPa jump over something 跳跃，腾跃

4. TBBa roof or ceiling that consists of several arches that are joined together, especially in a church 〔尤指教堂的〕拱顶，穹顶

Examples from the Corpus

vault• The willows had crowded closer to the shore, a swamp of them; their branches formed a vault.• Just breathing, deep in a vault.• a bank vault• Beneath the floor is the family vault of the Kolowrats.• But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault?• The groined vault is carried on grouped piers.• It is stone vaulted throughout, with massive piers to support the vaults.• Apparently, the casket would fit down into the vault especially purchased to house it underground.

vault2 verb

1 JUMP[transitiveT] (also vault over) to jump over something in one movement, using your hands or a pole to help you 〔用手或竿子撑着〕跳过，跃过

The robber vaulted over the counter and took $200 in cash.

抢劫犯跃过柜台，抢走了200美元现金。

► see thesaurus at jump

2 [intransitiveI] to move quickly from a lower rank or level to a higher one 蹿升，跃升 SYN leap

vault from/to

On Sunday Michigan vaulted from No. 4 to the nation’s top team.

星期天密歇根队从第四位一跃成为全国头号球队。

Examples from the Corpus

vault• He overlooked this fact: From its 1990 low to its 1997 high, Intel vaulted 2,325 percent.• He makes vaulting a five foot wall look easy.• This jump would also vault Apple a generation or so past anything that its competitors were preparing.• The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword, Kring.• He clambered over a bench, vaulted over a nestle of children on the ground, and failed to dodge a pie-seller.• Jack vaulted over the railings.• Stephan vaulted over the table and grabbed Gil by the throat.

vault from/to• On Sunday Michigan vaulted from No. 4 to the nation's top team.• Even so, with this novel Wilson vaults to the front rank of thriller writers.• That sense of compassion could vault to the surface very quickly if the economic miracle began to curdle.

From Longman Business Dictionary

vaultvault1 /vɔːltvɒːlt/ noun [countableC] (also vaults) [plural]BANKING

part of a bank or other organization where money is kept safely

More than $425 million currently sit in vaults in the Treasury Department.

→ bonded vault

vaultvault2 verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

to move into a higher or more successful position

When rates vaulted, selling accelerated.

vault to/into/above etc

The Hang Seng Index vaulted 2.6% to 3722.39.

The acquisition vaulted the company to the top of the workstation market.

Origin vault1

1. (1300-1400) Old French voute, from Vulgar Latin volvita “turn, vault”, probably from volvitare; → VAULT2

2. (1500-1600) → VAULT2

vault2

(1500-1600) Old French volter, from Vulgar Latin volvitare “to turn, jump”, from Latin volvere “to roll”

vault1 nounvault2 verb

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