hurdle vs vault

hurdle

verb
  • To jump over something while running. 

  • To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles). 

  • To overcome an obstacle. 

  • To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles. 

noun
  • An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. 

  • An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract. 

  • A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. 

vault

verb
  • To jump or leap over. 

  • To build as, or cover with a vault. 

noun
  • A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps. 

  • Any cellar or underground storeroom. 

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

  • 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. 

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