vaulting

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
vaulting
    adj 1: revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the
           heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: {overreaching},
           {vaulting}]
    n 1: (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting"
    2: a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the
       ground before the forelegs come down [syn: {curvet},
       {vaulting}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F.
   vo[^u]ter. See {Vault} an arch.]
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   1. 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.
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            The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. [See {Vault}, v. i.] To leap over; esp., to leap over by
      aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
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            I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
                                                  --Webster
                                                  (1623).
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vaulting \Vault"ing\, n.
   1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
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   2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaulting":
      aduncity, apse, aquilinity, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof,
      arching, archway, arcuation, aspiring, bouncing, bounding, camber,
      capering, ceilinged roof, circularity, concameration, concavity,
      concha, convexity, convolution, cove, crookedness, cupola,
      curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature,
      dome, emulous, enthusiastic, excurvation, excurvature,
      geodesic dome, hookedness, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, igloo,
      incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, jumping, keystone, leaping,
      ogive, pole vaulting, prancing, recurvation, recurvature,
      recurvity, rondure, rotundity, saltation, sinuosity, sinuousness,
      skewback, skipping, span, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles,
      timber topping, tortuosity, tortuousness, vault, voussoir
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