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vaulting 音標拼音: [v'ɔltɪŋ] n. 拱形圓頂,圓屋頂,跳
a. 跳的,跳過的,夸大的 拱形圓頂,圓屋頂,跳跳的,跳過的,誇大的 vaulting adj 1: revealing excessive self- confidence; reaching for the heights; " vaulting ambition" [ synonym: { 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 [ synonym: { curvet}, { vaulting}] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. -- Webster ( 1623). [ 1913 Webster]
Vaulting \ Vault" ing\, n. 1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps. [ 1913 Webster] 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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