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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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vault1 arched roof or ceiling XIV; burial chamber XVI. ME.
voute,
vaute — OF.
voute,
vaute (mod.
voûte):- Rom. *
vol(vi)ta, pp. fem. (for
volūta) of L.
volvere turn.
So
vault vb. XIV. — OF.
vouter (mod.
voûter). The sp. with
l appeared XV (after later OF. usage).
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Vaults in Riverside, Calif., Provide High-Tech Hideout for Secret Valuables.
Newspaper article from: The Business Press (San Bernardino, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 10/20/2003; 700+ words
; ...record movement in the vault building. "We have a handful [of vaults] that are rented...warehouse-style vault services offer high...manager at Hollywood Vaults in Hollywood, which...Famers. Hollywood Vaults has a two-year...Barber said. National Vault Storage mainly serves...
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Vault Energy Trust Adjourns Securityholders Meeting and Provides Further Guidance on the Arrangement With Penn West Energy Trust.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 11/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...Marketwire via COMTEX) -- On September 25, 2007, Vault Energy Trust ( Vault ) (TSX:VNG.UN) (TSX:VNG.DB) (TSX:VNG.DB.A) announced that it and Vault Energy Inc. ( VEI ) had entered into an agreement...
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Vault Energy Trust Announces Adjourned Meeting Date.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 12/7/2007; 700+ words
; ...via COMTEX) -- Background On September 25, 2007, Vault Energy Trust ( Vault ) (TSX:VNG.UN) (TSX:VNG.DB) (TSX:VNG.DB.A) announced that it and Vault Energy Inc. ( VEI ) had entered into an agreement...
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IBM Vault Registry Enhances Trust for E-Business.
Business Wire; 6/8/1998; 700+ words
; ...applied for and are issued. IBM Vault Registry builds confidence that...even from bank employees. IBM Vault Registry also gives companies...flexibility to establish individual vaults for different applications and...unique access privileges. IBM Vault Registry, part of IBM's SecureWay...
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Vault maker takes pride in burying product 30-year veteran thinks of it as the `blue-collar' arm of the death industry
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/15/1999; 700+ words
; ...moving around a one-ton vault and more than a ton of...running Beier Burial Vaults in Columbus for 30 years...with Lake Shore Burial Vault Co. of Brookfield several...typically sells his vaults with delivery service...While a plain concrete vault sells for less than...
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Vault Energy Trust Enters Into Arrangement Agreement With Penn West Energy Trust
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 9/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Sept. 25, 2007) - Vault Energy Trust ("Vault") (TSX:VNG.UN)(TSX:VNG.DB)(TSX...will acquire all the issued and outstanding units of Vault. The transaction will be accomplished through a Plan...
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Vault Energy Trust ("Vault" or the "Trust") Announces Its Consolidated Financial and Operating Results for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 11/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...Marketwire - Nov. 14, 2007) - Vault Energy Trust (TSX:VNG.UN) (TSX...September 24th, 2007 we announced that Vault had entered into a definitive agreement...of the issued and outstanding units of Vault pursuant to a plan of arrangement under...
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Vault Redefines the Recruiting Video.
Business Wire; 1/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...people to sleep faster than a dose of Ambien, but Vault.com is redefining the genre. Vault has injected the typical infomercial-like recruiting...working if they take the job. According to a recent Vault survey, 63% of undergraduate and graduate students...
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Vault Selects Its "Big Break via Video" Winners.
Business Wire; 2/26/2007; 697 words
; ...Revealed NEW YORK -- Career information media company Vault (www.vault.com) has chosen five winners for its first-ever Big Break via Video Resume Challenge. In Vault's Big Break via Video contest - the pioneering video...
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Vault.com Forms Content Alliance with America Online; Vault.com to Provide AOL Member with "Insider" Career Research.
Business Wire; 12/17/1999; 700+ words
; ...YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999-- Vault.com (http://www.Vault.com), a leading online career research, networking...interactive service, to provide AOL members with Vault.com's "insider" career research. The Vault...
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vault
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...covered by means of a vault or voussure is said...while a system of vaults on a ceiling is called vaulting . A vault bay is defined by...also called cross-vaults ) creating groins...lierne: ribbed vault with some ribs ( tertiaries...
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Bank Vault
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...with new ways to break into vaults, vault makers found innovative ways to foil them. Modern vaults may be armed with a wide array...area inside the indestructible vault. These older vaults were typically made with steel...
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pole vault
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
pole vault • n. ( the pole vault ) an athletic event in which competitors attempt to vault over a high bar with the end of an extremely long flexible pole held in the hands and used to give extra spring. ∎ a vault...
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cross-vault
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
cross-vault. Intersecting barrel-vaults forming a groin-vault.
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coved vault
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
coved vault. Cloistered arch or vault , composed of four triangular coves rising from a square plan in corbelled courses to an apex and meeting in vertical diagonal planes, the axial sections being arcs, but actually pseudo-vaults.
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