Grave vs Vault - What's the difference?
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
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death, destruction.
(obsolete) To dig.
* (rfdate) (Book of Prayer) , (Psalms) 7:16:
(obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
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* (rfdate) (Robert Louis Stevenson), Requiem :
(obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
* (rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer):
(obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
* (rfdate) (Matthew Prior):
(obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare):
(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
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Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
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Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
* Gray
A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
* Shakespeare
* 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.
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* Jonathan Swift
To build as, or cover with a vault.
* Sir Walter Scott
(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.
An act of vaulting; a leap or jump.
(gymnastics) An event in gymanstics performed on a vaulting horse.
As nouns the difference between grave and vault
is that grave is cave, den, lair while vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy or vault can be an act of vaulting; a leap or jump.As a verb vault is
to build as, or cover with a vault or vault can be (ambitransitive) to jump or leap over.grave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- He had lain in the grave four days.
- They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
Derived terms
* begrave * dance on someone's grave * dig one's own grave * early grave * graveclothes * grave marker * grave robber * graverobbing * gravedigger * gravelike * graveside * gravesite * gravestone * graveward * mass grave * turn in one's grave * war grave * white man's graveSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
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- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- With gold men may the hearte grave .
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave , and wise.
- ''The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
Synonyms
* * (unsorted by sense) solemn, sober, serious, sage, staid, demure, thoughtful, sedate, weighty, momentous, importantNoun
(en noun)Statistics
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English
(wikipedia vault)Etymology 1
From (etyl) volte (modern .Noun
(en noun)- the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
- that heaven's vault should crack
- The bank kept their money safe in a large vault .
- Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
- the silent vaults of death
- 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 vaultVerb
(en verb)- 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)- The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.