different between romp vs vault

English

Etymology

Probably a variant of ramp.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)

1. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
   • When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
2. (transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
   • If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
   • Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
3. To win easily.
   • England romped to an easy win over Australia.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.

4. (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.

Translations

Noun

romp (plural romps)

1. (now archaic) Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 57:

     I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.

2. A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. [from 18th c.]
   • Sex romp at Windsor castle (headline in The Sun)
3. An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. [from 19th c.]
4. (chiefly sports) A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• rumpus

Translations

Anagrams

• PROM, Prom, prom

Afrikaans

Noun

romp (plural rompe)

1. skirt

Catalan

Verb

romp

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rompre
2. second-person singular imperative form of rompre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

romp m (plural rompen, diminutive rompje n)

1. trunk, torso
2. (ship) hull

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?lt/, /v??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v?lt/, /v?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt
• Homophone: volt (in some accents)
• The l was originally suppressed in pronunciation.

Etymology 1

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *vol?ta, a regularization of Latin vol?ta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”). Doublet of volute.

Noun

vault (plural vaults)

1. An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault

2. Any arched ceiling or roof.
3. (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.

   • 1636, George Sandys, A Paraphrase on Job

     the silent vaults of death

   • 1985, Bible (NJB), Genesis, 1:6:

     God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’

4. The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
5. Any cellar or underground storeroom.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean

     to banish rats that haunt our vault

6. Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

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

8. (often figuratively) Any archive of past content.
9. (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
10. (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
11. (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
12. (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

Synonyms

• (outhouse or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (gymnastic apparatus): vaulting table

Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over.

Derived terms

• vaulter
• vaulting

Translations

Noun

vault (plural vaults)

1. An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
2. (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
3. (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
4. (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
5. (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

Translations

See also

• pole vault
• vaulting horse

Further reading

• vault on Wikipedia.Wikipedia