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vault

/vawlt/US // vɔlt //UK // (vɔːlt) //

拱顶,穹顶,拱门,金库

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : an arched structure resembling a vault.
    • : a space, chamber, or passage enclosed by a vault or vaultlike structure, especially one located underground.
    • : an underground chamber, as a cellar or a division of a cellar.
    • : 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.
    • : a strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc.
    • : a burial chamber.
    • : Anatomy. an arched roof of a cavity.
    • : something likened to an arched roof: the vault of heaven.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to construct or cover with a vault.
    • : to make in the form of a vault; arch.
    • : to extend or stretch over in the manner of an arch; overarch: An arbor vaulted the path.
    • : to store in a vault: The paintings will be vaulted when the museum is closed.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to curve or bend in the form of a vault.

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Examples

  • Reading this book is like sticking a stethoscoped ear to the vault containing the cryptocurrency industry’s origins.

  • VOSD resident historian Randy Dotinga — we truly don’t know where he gets these things — is back with another one from the vault in honor of Wednesday’s vice presidential debate.

  • You can set how the software interacts with your browser, set up alerts for when your credentials are involved in a data breach, and set a default vault for new passwords.

  • All the closing documents go into a digital vault that attorneys and lenders can access online.

  • A gymnast launching off the vault will flip and twist multiple times within a single second.

  • It was fronted by what looked like a heavily reinforced bank vault door.

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

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

  • For decades, these fascinating recordings languished in the Cash Family vault, unheard and unremembered.

  • Now, we're in a very small, very hot room with no decor—there is only an ominous-looking vault door.

  • (b) To open the Treasury vault, the presence of two persons designated by the Secretary of the Treasury is required.

  • Each entry on the vault record book shall be signed by the persons having access to the safe.

  • On the 18th fifty heavy shells, including 12-inch and 14-inch, dropped out of the blue vault of heaven on to the Anzacs.

  • Coloured shafts mapped the vault from horizon to zenith like the spokes of a prodigious wheel of fire.

  • Cautiously they began to go up into the dark vault of the upper house, the boards creaking under their weight.