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noun (pluralvalleys)
- An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
- The area which drains into a river.
- Any structure resembling 1, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
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noun
- An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
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A structure resembling a vault, especially (poetic) that formed by the sky.
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1985, God said, "Let there be a through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two." " Genesis 1:6 (New Jerusalem Bible)
- An enclosed area covered with an arched roof, especially an underground room used for burial, or to store valuables, wine etc.
verb
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(context, transitive, or, intransitive) To jump or leap over (something).
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adjective-
(architecture): A style of ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.
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noun
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction
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A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line
verb
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(present participle of, vault)
adjective
- Leaning upward or over
- Exaggerated or overreaching
- performing
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| verge |
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noun
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- An edge or border.
- (obsolete) A male rod, phallus
- (metaphore) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen
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I was on the verge of tears.
verb (verges, verging, verged, )
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(intransitive) To come very close; to border; to approach.
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Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
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| vestibule |
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a passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior of a building
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(scifi) A gateway to another dimension.
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| vestry |
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noun
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy
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The choirboys change into their cassocks in the
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish
- The meets the first Tuesday every month
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| via |
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noun
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A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
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(electronics) A small hole in a printed-circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
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noun- A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
adjective (wikipedia, Victorian era)
- Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period
- Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period
- Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period
- Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia
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noun
- A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- (UK) A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
- In ancient Rome, a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
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noun
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(architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
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(zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
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(zoology) Any marine gastropod of the (super)family Volutidae.
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