I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pole vault
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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As it was, some high vaults collapsed before towers were added, as at Beauvais.
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The chapel has a high stone vault and is apsidal at one end.
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The interior is in simple, brick design with high vaults and brick piers and marble columns.
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All are lofty with high vaults supported by flying buttress schemes.
ribbed
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Only the interior ribbed vaults are Gothic, and the abundance of fine sculpture both on the exterior and inside.
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The nave and choir have the usual Gothic ribbed vault but in the aisles the Piast vaulting can be clearly studied.
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It is a five-aisled church, not of hall type, with a wide, lofty nave and ribbed vault .
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Early ribbed vaults are quadripartite, that is, each bay is divided into four compartments by diagonal ribs.
■ NOUN
bank
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He stated that supporting evidence was on a videotape stored in a New York bank vault .
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It was part of the real treasure of mankind, more valuable than all the gold locked uselessly away in bank vaults .
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The Third Reich seems to have been using it as a bank vault .
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Do you have them locked away in a bank vault ?
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When used with style and not exclusively to breed one fortune from another in a bank vault , as these people do.
barrel
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It has a fine room with a barrel vault .
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The naos has a painted barrel vault and the pro-naos a flat-timber roof.
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The transepts have barrel vaults and the east end a semi-circular vault.
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Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
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The other four domes are supported in a like manner and short barrel vaults connect one dome to another.
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The hall was covered by an intersecting barrel vault and was divided into three bays.
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The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault , a clerestory but no triforium.
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Inside, the crossing piers are cut back and a wooden barrel vault extends across all four arms of the cross.
pole
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In 1908 he won an Olympic gold medal in the pole vault .
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When he went to the pole vault , he had a little added adrenalin that put his steps off.
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David Cox won the pole vault with a modest vault of 18-4 {.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the pole vault
vaulting ambition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bank vault
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apparently, the casket would fit down into the vault especially purchased to house it underground.
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Beneath the floor is the family vault of the Kolowrats.
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But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault ?
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It is stone vaulted throughout, with massive piers to support the vaults.
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Just breathing, deep in a vault .
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The groined vault is carried on grouped piers.
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The willows had crowded closer to the shore, a swamp of them; their branches formed a vault .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He makes vaulting a five foot wall look easy.
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Jack vaulted over the railings.
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Stephan vaulted over the table and grabbed Gil by the throat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He clambered over a bench, vaulted over a nestle of children on the ground, and failed to dodge a pie-seller.
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He overlooked this fact: From its 1990 low to its 1997 high, Intel vaulted 2, 325 percent.
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The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword, Kring.
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This jump would also vault Apple a generation or so past anything that its competitors were preparing.