Columbarium vs. Vault

Columbariumnoun

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

Columbariumnoun

A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.

Columbariumnoun

A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.

Columbariumnoun

A niche in such a building for housing urns.

Columbariumnoun

A dovecote or pigeon house.

Columbariumnoun

a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead

Columbariumnoun

a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

Columbarium

A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the respectful and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.

Vaultnoun

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

Vaultnoun

Any arched ceiling or roof.

Vaultnoun

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

Vaultnoun

The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and church crypts.

Vaultnoun

Any cellar or underground storeroom.

Vaultnoun

Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

Vaultnoun

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

Vaultnoun

(gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.

Vaultnoun

(gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.

Vaultnoun

(computing) An encrypted digital archive.

Vaultnoun

An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.

Vaultnoun

An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.

Vaultnoun

A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

Vaultnoun

An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump.

Vaultnoun

(equestrianism) nodot=a: a circular movement by the horse.

Vaultnoun

(gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

Vaultverb

(transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.

Vaultverb

(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.

Vaultnoun

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

Vaultnoun

An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, used for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

Vaultnoun

The canopy of heaven; the sky.

Vaultnoun

A leap or bound.

Vaultverb

To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, to vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

Vaultverb

To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

Vaultverb

To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

Vaultverb

To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Vaultnoun

a burial chamber (usually underground)

Vaultnoun

a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables

Vaultnoun

an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

Vaultnoun

the act of jumping over an obstacle

Vaultverb

jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

Vaultverb

bound vigorously