Lunette vs. Vault

Lunettenoun

(architectural element) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.

Lunettenoun

(architectural element) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door. a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson building of the US Library of Congress

Lunettenoun

(obsolete) An image or other representation of a crescent moon.

Lunettenoun

(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks. two kinds of lunette fortification

Lunettenoun

(Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.

Lunettenoun

A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.

Lunettenoun

The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.

Lunettenoun

(geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.

Lunettenoun

(farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.

Lunettenoun

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

Lunettenoun

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Lunettenoun

(in the plural) See lunettes.

Lunettenoun

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

Lunettenoun

A half horseshoe, which lacks the sponge.

Lunettenoun

A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.

Lunettenoun

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

Lunettenoun

Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

Lunettenoun

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Lunettenoun

temporary fortification like a detached bastion

Lunettenoun

oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault

Lunette

A lunette (French lunette, ) is a half-moon shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs.

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