'Vaulting' definitions:
Definition of 'vaulting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: overreaching, vaulting]
noun
(architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting"
noun
A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down [syn: curvet, vaulting]
Definition of 'Vaulting'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Vaulting'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'vaulting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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