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Vault vs Cope - What's the difference?

vault | cope |

As nouns the difference between vault and cope

is that vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy or vault can be an act of vaulting; a leap or jump while cope is a long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.

As verbs the difference between vault and cope

is that vault is to build as, or cover with a vault or vault can be (ambitransitive) to jump or leap over while cope is to deal effectively with something difficult or cope can be to cover (a joint or structure) with coping or cope can be (obsolete) to bargain for; to buy.

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

    cope

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (cop)
  • To deal effectively with something difficult.
    • I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.}}
  • To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
  • (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
    • Synonyms
    * (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstand

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
  • *:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
  • Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
  • The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
  • * Milton
    • the starry cope of heaven
  • *, II.12:
    • Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
  • (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
  • (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
    • (Knight)
    (De Colange)
  • An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

    • Verb

    (cop)
  • To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
  • To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
  • * Holland
    • Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (cop)
  • (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
  • (obsolete) To exchange or barter.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
  • (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
  • * Shakespeare
    • They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
  • * Philips
    • Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
  • (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
    (Webster 1913)

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