 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
soaring
adjective
1: ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual;
"soaring prices"
2: moving to great heights with little apparent effort; "a
soaring eagle"
3: of imposing height; especially standing out above others;
"an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires
of the cathedral"; "towering iceburgs" [syn: {eminent}, {lofty},
{towering}]
noun: the activity of flying a glider [syn: {glide}, {gliding}, {sailplaning},
{sailing}]
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]:
Soaring \Soar"ing\,
a. & n. from {Soar}. -- {Soar"ing*ly}, adverb
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "soaring":
Brownian movement, Olympian, advance, aerial, aeronautics,
air service, airline, airy, altitudinous, anabasis, angular motion,
ascending, ascension, ascent, aspiring, astronautics, august,
aviation, axial, axial motion, back, back-flowing, backflowing,
backing, backward, backward motion, ballooning, blind flying,
career, clamber, climb, climbing, cloud-seeding, colossal,
commercial aviation, contact flying, course, cruising, current,
descending, descent, distinguished, dominating, down-trending,
downward, downward motion, drift, driftage, drifting, ebbing,
elevated, elevation, eminent, escalade, ethereal, exalted, famous,
flight, flow, flowing, fluent, flux, flying, forward motion,
fountain, general aviation, gliding, glorious, godlike, going,
gush, gyrational, gyratory, gyring up, haughty, heroic, high,
high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, increase, jet,
jump, lauded, leap, levitation, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent,
majestic, monumental, mount, mounting, noble, oblique motion,
ongoing, onrush, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, passage,
passing, pilotage, plunging, progress, progressive, prominent,
radial motion, random motion, reflowing, refluence, refluent,
reflux, regression, regressive, renowned, retrogression,
retrogressive, rise, rising, rocketing up, rotary, rotational,
rotatory, run, running, rush, rushing, sailing, sailplaning,
saltation, set, shooting up, sideward, sideward motion, sinking,
skyscraping, spiring, spout, spring, spurt, steep, sternway,
stream, streaming, sublime, subsiding, superb, superlative,
supernal, surge, takeoff, taking off, topless, toplofty, topping,
towering, towery, traject, trajet, trend, up-trending, upclimb,
upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth,
uphill, upleap, uplift, uplifted, upping, upreared, uprisal,
uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence,
upsweep, upswing, upward, upward motion, vault, winging, zooming
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