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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
vaulting en · ADJ
Meanings
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Leaning upward or over.
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(figuratively) Exaggerated or overreaching.
Vaulting ambition.
On Long Bets […] there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism.
2021 May 29, Ross Douthat, “Why the Lab Leak Theory Matters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Performing.
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Deriveds
cross-vaulting · vaulting horse · vaulting box · vaulting-school · equestrian vaulting · vaulting school · pole-vaulting · vaultingly · vaulting table · fan vaulting
vaulting en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
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(countable, uncountable) A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
Spreading over the high vaultings and walls, the traditional scenes from the life of Christ are depicted on an immense scale.
1928, Robert Byron, “The Beauty of Wealth”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 242:
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(countable, uncountable) The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
Forms
Translations (11)
bg кон с гривни (gymnastics on horseback) · fi holvaus (vaulted structure) · fi holvaus (practice of constructing vaults) · tr atlı cimnastik (gymnastics on horseback) · bg свод (vaulted structure) · cy fowtio (vaulted structure) · fi vikellys (gymnastics on horseback) · ka კამარა (vaulted structure) · pl woltyżerka (gymnastics on horseback) · nl voltige (gymnastics on horseback) · ka კამარის აღმართვა (practice of constructing vaults)
vaulting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of vault