How to pronounce “vault”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
• Any arched ceiling or roof.
• (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
• The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
• Any cellar or underground storeroom.
• Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
• The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
• (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
• (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
• (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
• (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
• (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
• (transitive) To store in a vault.
• (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.

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