overreaching, vaulting
(adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; “vaulting ambition”
curvet, vaulting
(noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
vaulting
(noun) (architecture) a vaulted structure; “arches and vaulting”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
vaulting (countable and uncountable, plural vaultings)
The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
vaulting
present participle of vault
vaulting (comparative more vaulting, superlative most vaulting)
Leaning upward or over
Exaggerated or overreaching
performing
Source: Wiktionary
Vault"ing, n.
1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
Vault, n. Etym: [OE. voute, OF. voute, volte, F. voûte, LL. volta, for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about. See Voluble, and cf. Vault a leap, Volt a turn, Volute.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.
2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." Milton. The silent vaults of death. Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift.
3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. Shak.
4. Etym: [F. volte, It. volta, originally, a turn, and the same word as volta an arch. See the Etymology above.]
Definition: A leap or bound. Specifically: -- (a) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet. (b) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
Note: The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation. Barrel, Cradle, Cylindrical, or Wagon, vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points. It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.
– Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.
– Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
– Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.
– Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.
– Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
Vault, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaulting.] Etym: [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. voûter. See Vault an arch.]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court. The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. Sir W. Scott.
2. Etym: [See Vault, v. i.]
Definition: To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence. I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. Webster (1623).
Vault, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OF. volter, F. voltiger, It. volt turn. See Vault, n., 4.]
1. To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. Shak. Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. Dryden. Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. Addison.
2. To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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