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SOARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of flying a glider
Synonyms:
glide; gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("soaring" is a kind of...):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soaring"):
hang gliding (gliding in a hang glider)
paragliding; parasailing (gliding in a parasail)
Derivation:
soar (fly a plane without an engine)
soar (fly by means of a hang glider)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of imposing height; especially standing out above others
Example:
towering icebergs
Synonyms:
eminent; lofty; soaring; towering
Classified under:
Similar:
high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual
Example:
soaring prices
Classified under:
Similar:
high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb soar
Context examples:
Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As we limped homewards, sadly mauled and discomfited, we saw them for a long time flying at a great height against the deep blue sky above our heads, soaring round and round, no bigger than wood-pigeons, with their eyes no doubt still following our progress.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
