soaring

soaring
    adj 1: ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual;
           "soaring prices"
    2: of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an
       eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the
       cathedral"; "towering icebergs" [syn: {eminent}, {lofty},
       {soaring}, {towering}]
    n 1: the activity of flying a glider [syn: {glide}, {gliding},
         {sailplaning}, {soaring}, {sailing}]
    

Soaring \Soar"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Soar}. -- {Soar"ing*ly}, adv.
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Soar \Soar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Soared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Soaring}.] [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to dry (by
   exposing to the air), fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze;
   akin to Gr. ?????.]
   1. To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as
      on wings. --Chaucer.
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            When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
                                                  --Byron.
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   2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be
      exalted in mood.
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            Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton.
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            Valor soars above
            What the world calls misfortune.      --Addison.
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   3. (Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely
      without loss of altitude.
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192 Moby Thesaurus words for "soaring":
      Brownian movement, Olympian, advance, aerial, aeronautics,
      air service, airline, airy, altitudinous, anabasis, angular motion,
      ascending, ascension, ascent, aspiring, astronautics, august,
      aviation, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing,
      backing, backward, backward motion, ballooning, blind flying,
      career, clamber, climb, climbing, cloud-seeding, colossal,
      commercial aviation, contact flying, course, cruising, current,
      descending, descent, distinguished, dominating, down-trending,
      downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing,
      elevated, elevation, eminent, escalade, ethereal, exalted, famous,
      flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion,
      fountain, general aviation, gliding, glorious, godlike, going,
      gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, haughty, heroic, high,
      high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, increase, jet,
      jump, lauded, leap, levitation, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent,
      majestic, monumental, mount, mounting, noble, oblique motion,
      ongoing, onrush, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, passage,
      passing, pilotage, plunging, progress, progressive, prominent,
      radial motion, random motion, reflowing, refluence, refluent,
      reflux, regression, regressive, renowned, retrogression,
      retrogressive, rise, rising, rocketing up, rotary, rotational,
      rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sailing, sailplaning,
      saltation, set, shooting up, sideward, sideward motion, sinking,
      skyscraping, spiring, spout, spring, spurt, steep, sternway,
      stream, streaming, sublime, subsiding, superb, superlative,
      supernal, surge, takeoff, taking off, topless, toplofty, topping,
      towering, towery, traject, trajet, trend, up-trending, upclimb,
      upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth,
      uphill, upleap, uplift, uplifted, upping, upreared, uprisal,
      uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence,
      upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, vault, winging, zooming