Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act or practice of constructing vaults.
- n. The method of construction of a vault.
- n. A vault or vaulted structure.
- n. Such structures considered as a group.
- adj. Leaping upward or over.
- adj. Reaching too far; exaggerated: his vaulting ambition.
- adj. Employed in leaping over: a vaulting pole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- n. A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- n. The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- v. Present participle of vault.
- adj. Leaning upward or over
- adj. Exaggerated or overreaching
- adj. performing
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
- n. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In architecture, vaulted work; vaults collectively.
- n. The art or practice of a vaulter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
- adj. revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
- n. (architecture) a vaulted structure
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Examples
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: Equestrians competed there Wednesday in vaulting -- an event that combines gymnastics, dance and horseback riding -- in the city's first-ever World Equestrian Games.
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Ginobili has filled the scoring void, vaulting from a 9.4 points-per-game contributor on the Spurs '2003 NBA title team to the scoring leader in the infant stage of these playoffs.
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Seventeen inches of rainbow, plump as a Buddha and colored like a slice of summer, decides to reconnoiter, vaulting from the water to nearly eye level, then bolting downriver.
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The vaulting is a groined arch 6 ins. thick at the crown and
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Norman, but the received opinion ascribes these Ripon examples to the time of Archbishop Roger, and it will be observed that their position harmonizes with the bays of the vaulting, which is presumably his, but has no relation externally to the spacing of the windows of the crypt, which, moreover, have an external splay.
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