 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
soar
noun: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: {zoom}]
verb
1: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yes" [syn: {soar
up}, {soar upwards}, {surge}, {zoom}]
2: fly by means of a hang glider [syn: {hang glide}]
3: fly upwards or high in the sky
4: go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the
cease-fire was announced"
5: fly a plane without an engine [syn: {sailplane}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soar \Soar\, verb (used without an object) [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.
When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
--Byron.
2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be
exalted in mood.
Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton.
Valor soars above
What the world calls misfortune. --Addison.
3. (A["e]ronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide
indefinitely without loss of altitude.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soar \Soar\, noun
The act of soaring; upward flight.
This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. --Coleridge.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soar \Soar\, adjective
See 3d {Sore}. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Soar \Soar\, adjective
See {Sore}, reddish brown.
{Soar falcon}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Sore falcon}, under {Sore}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "soar":
advance, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, arise, ascend, aspire, back,
back up, balloon, be airborne, become airborne, budge, bulk,
bulk large, buss the clouds, change, change place, circle,
claw skyward, climb, cruise, descend, drift, ebb, escalate, exceed,
ferry, flit, float, flow, fly, fly aloft, gain altitude, get over,
glide, go, go around, go round, go sideways, gyrate, hang, hop,
hover, hydroplane, increase, jet, kite, leave the ground, lift,
loom, loom large, mount, move, move over, navigate, outsoar,
outstrip, overtop, plane, plunge, poise, progress, rear, regress,
retrogress, rise, rise above, rocket, rotate, run, sail, sailplane,
seaplane, shift, shoot, shoot up, sink, spin, spire,
stand on tiptoe, stand out, stir, stream, subside, take off,
take the air, take wing, tower, tower above, transcend, travel, up,
uprear, uprise, volplane, wane, whirl, wing, zoom
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SOAR
1. State, Operator And Result. A general problem-solving
{production system} architecture, intended as a model of human
intelligence. Developed by A. Newell in the early 1980s.
SOAR was originally implemented in {Lisp} and {OPS5} and is
currently implemented in {Common Lisp}. Version: Soar6.
E-mail: .
["The SOAR Papers", P.S. Rosenbloom et al eds, MIT Press
1993].
(1994-11-04)
2. Smalltalk On A RISC. A {RISC} {microprocessor} designed by
David Patterson's at Berekeley.
(1994-11-04)
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