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# vault

«vault» in Mova's school dictionary: **a strong, locked room for keeping money and treasure…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a vault, vaults); verb (vault, vaults, vaulted, vaulting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vault is a strong, locked room for keeping money and treasure safe, as in a bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#m1)

2) A vault is a room under a church or building, sometimes used for burying people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#m2)

3) A vault is an arched roof or ceiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#m3)

4) To vault is to jump over something, pushing off with your hands or with a pole; a vault is that jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#m4)

5) To vault can also mean to jump up onto something, such as a horse, using your hands to push off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and gymnastics, pupils vault over a vaulting box or horse; in athletics there is the pole vault. In stories, robbers try to break into a bank vault full of gold. In history, old churches have vaulted ceilings. Phrases: «bank vault», «pole vault», «vault over», «vaulting box».

### examples

- The gold was kept in a bank vault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x1)
- She vaulted over the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x2)
- In gymnastics, we jumped over the vault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x3)
- The pole vault champion cleared a high bar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x4)
- The church had a high stone vault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x5)
- The robbers could not open the vault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x6)
- He placed his hands on the box and vaulted over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x7)
- Jose thanked him, and vaulting on his horse they rode on to the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/#x8)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb: vaulted, vaulting. Spelt -ault (the l is pronounced). The «pole vault» uses a long flexible pole. Do not confuse with «fault».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vault» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vault/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.