'Soaring' definitions:
Definition of 'soaring'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Soaring'
From: GCIDE
- Soar \Soar\, v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]
- When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. [1913 Webster]
- Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Soaring'
From: GCIDE
- Soaring \Soar"ing\, a. & n. from Soar. -- {Soar"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'soaring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Brownian movement,
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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