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Vaulting

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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.

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

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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In architecture, vaulted work; vaults collectively.

n. The art or practice of a vaulter.

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

Word Usage

": Equestrians competed there Wednesday in vaulting -- an event that combines gymnastics, dance and horseback riding -- in the city's first-ever World Equestrian Games."

Equivalent

bold

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dressage

Cross Reference

cylindrical groined vaulting fan-tracery vaulting

Verb Stem

vault

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

assaulting defaulting exalting faulting halting malting salting