Word Meanings - VAULTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.

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• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• CONSTRUCTIVE
  1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• CONSTRUCTIONIST
  One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
• CONSTRUCTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
• VAULTER
  One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.
• CONSTRUCTOR
  A constructer.
• CONSTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters. (more info) 1. Tendency or ability to form or construct.
• VAULTED
  Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. (more info) 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. 2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
• CONSTRUCTURE
  That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.
• VAULTAGE
  Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.
• CONSTRUCTER
  One who, or that which, constructs or frames.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• RECONSTRUCT
  To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.
• MISCONSTRUCTION
  Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• MISCONSTRUCT
  To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
• RECONSTRUCTION
  The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. (more info) 1. The act
• BIVAULTED
  Having two vaults or arches.