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Hurtle vs Vault - What's the difference?

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Hurtle is a related term of vault.


In lang=en terms the difference between hurtle and vault

is that hurtle is to hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently while vault is to build as, or cover with a vault.

As verbs the difference between hurtle and vault

is that hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control while vault is to build as, or cover with a vault or vault can be (ambitransitive) to jump or leap over.

As nouns the difference between hurtle and vault

is that hurtle is a fast movement in literal or figurative sense 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.

hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)
  • To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
  • The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
    Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
  • (archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  • * Fairfax
  • Together hurtled both their steeds.
  • (archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
  • To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
  • He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
  • (archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
  • * 1975 , Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism
  • But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle .
  • * Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper
  • Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
  • A clattering sound.
  • * 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26
  • There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

    Anagrams

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    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