vaulting

Pluralvaultings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of vault. Use it after "is" or "are," or to talk about doing the action.

   The kids were vaulting over the low wall in the park.

   The game is vaulting some old maps in the next update.

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2. 2
   adjectivefiguratively

   Much too big or too bold, going further than makes sense.

   His vaulting ambition made him lots of enemies at work.

   The mayor's vaulting promises sounded great but were impossible to keep.

   Similaroverweening, soaring, boundless

   Oppositemodest

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   An arched ceiling or roof, or a group of them seen together.

   We looked up at the painted vaulting of the old church.

   Birds nested high in the stone vaultings of the ruined abbey.

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   The work of building arched ceilings, or one special way of doing it.

   Stone vaulting takes great skill, because one mistake can bring the roof down.

   Each region had its own style of vaulting.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   A sport where people do gymnastics and dance on the back of a horse that goes around in a circle.

   My sister does vaulting at the riding club every Saturday.

   She fell off twice during her first vaulting lesson but kept trying.

6. 6
   adjective

   Going up high or curving over the top of something.

   We walked under the vaulting branches of the old trees.

   The vaulting roof of the train station seemed to touch the sky.

   Similararching, soaring

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