ghetto vs vault

ghetto

noun
  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

vault

noun
  • An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building. 

  • A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps. 

  • Any cellar or underground storeroom. 

  • Any archive of past content. 

  • Any arched ceiling or roof. 

  • Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves. 

  • The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts. 

  • An encrypted digital archive. 

  • The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings. 

  • An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump. 

  • Any burial chamber, particularly those underground. 

  • An event or performance involving a vaulting horse. 

  • A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus. 

  • Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse. 

verb
  • To jump or leap over. 

  • To build as, or cover with a vault. 

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