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Vault vs Daily - What's the difference?

vault | daily |

As nouns the difference between vault and daily

is that vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy while daily is a newspaper that is published every day.

As a verb vault

is to build as, or cover with a vault.

As an adjective daily is

quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day.

As an adverb daily is

quotidianly, every day.

vault

English

(wikipedia vault)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) volte (modern .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
  • * Gray
    • the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
  • A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
  • * Shakespeare
    • that heaven's vault should crack
  • * 1985', God said, ‘Let there be a ' vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’ — Genesis 1:6 (New Jerusalem Bible)
  • A secure, enclosed area, especially an underground room used for burial, or to store valuables, wine etc.
    • The bank kept their money safe in a large vault .
    Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
  • * Sandys
    • the silent vaults of death
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • to banish rats that haunt our vault
    Derived terms
    * barrel vault * cloister vault * compound vault * cross vault * decapartite vault * dodecapartite vault * domical vault * groin vault * oblique vault * octopartite vault * panel vault * polygonal vault * quadripartite vault * quinquepartite vault * ribbed vault * segmental vault * septempartite vault * sexpartite vault * star vault * stilted vault * tripartite vault * Welsh vault

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build as, or cover with a vault.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) frequentative form of (etyl) volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.
    • The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
    Derived terms
    * vaulter * vaulting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of vaulting; a leap or jump.
  • (gymnastics) An event in gymanstics performed on a vaulting horse.

    • See also

    * pole vault * vaulting horse

    daily

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 11
    • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
  • * Milton
    • Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
  • diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • quotidianly, every day
  • diurnally, by daylight

    • Noun

    (dailies)
  • a newspaper that is published every day.
  • (UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
  • (UK, slang) a daily disposable.
  • (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

    • Synonyms

    * daily help * daily maid (woman only)

    See also

    * quotidian * everyday

    Anagrams

    * English frequency adverbs