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Definitions: Vaulting |
VaultingAdjective1. Revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition". Noun1. (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting". 2. A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vaulting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: VaultingSynonyms: overreaching (adj), curvet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Desire | Longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity,. |
Aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching. | |
Superiority | Adjective: superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding; Verb:great; distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vaulting |
| English words defined with "vaulting": Acrobatism ♦ buck ♦ Cameration, Cross-vaulting ♦ English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture ♦ Fan tracery, Fan vaulting ♦ Gothic, Gothic architecture ♦ hurdle ♦ Lierne rib, long horse ♦ perpendicular, perpendicular style, pole, pole vaulting ♦ Springer ♦ Tracer/y, Triforium ♦ vault, vaulting horse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vaulting": overhand cut-and-fill. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pole Vaulting (1901) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pole vaulting, U.S. Naval Academy.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The plump bald sergeantmajor was testing with his foot the springboard of the vaulting horse. |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other. |
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| "Vaulting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 38.78% of the time. "Vaulting" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 38.78% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.69% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.16% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vaulting": Fan vaulting ♦ pole vaulting ♦ vaulting horse ♦ vaulting pole. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "vaulting": Cross-vaulting, fan-vaulting, pole-vaulting, star-vaulting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "vaulting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stërvitje për kërcim, kube (cupola, dome, ossuary, tholepin, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقنطر (arched), واثب (voltairian), سقف معقود, عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, writing), إنشاء العقود و القناطر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сводове, свод (anticline, arch, archway, concave, cope, cove, dome, vault), прескачане (intermission, jump, leaping, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 拱形屋顶. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skok o tyèi (pole jump, pole-jumping), klenutí, klenba (arch, canopy, roof, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stang (bar, bars and rods, finger, horizontal, horizontal bar, member, pole, rod, select bar, selecting bar, vaulting pole), plint (box, box horse, vaulting box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | springkast (box, box horse, vaulting box), polsstok (pole, vaulting pole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voûte (vault, vaulted ceiling), voûté (vaulted), pratique de saut, exercice de saut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wölbung (arch, bulge, camber, convexity, cove, crown, curvature, curve, dome, oncavity), wölben (bend, bending, camber, curve, dish, thrust out, vault), springen (bounce, bound, branch, burst, come off, crack, de-wiring, dive, diving, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, nip, pop, pounce, saltation, skim, skip, skip about, slipping, spring, sprung, spud, spurt, to jump, to skip, vault), gewölbe (arch, arches, cove, dome, furnace roof, hood, roof, vault, vaults), bockspringen (leapfrog, leapfrogs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πήδημα (bounce, bound, hop, jump, leap, saltation, shock, skip, skipping, spring, vault), υπερβολικόσ (abnormal, exceeding, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, fulsome, hyperbolic, immoderate, inordinate, profuse in, rampant, rank, steep, undue, whopping), αψίδωμα, θόλοσ (arch, canopy, cupola, dome, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקומר (convex, vaulted), קמירות (arching, convexity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | boltozat (concave, cove, dome, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | volteggio (vault), che salta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 跳箱 (vaulting horse), 跳ね馬 (vaulting horse), 跳び箱 (vaulting horse), 飛び箱 (vaulting horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はねうま (vaulting horse), とびば" (vaulting horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheimyragh (bounce, frisk, hop, jumping, leap, long jump, pounce, spring, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aultingvay exercícios de salto, ato de saltar (saltation). (various references) salt (bounce, bound, caper, dive, Frisk, gambol, header, hop, jump, leap, resilience, saltation, skip, spring, start, vault), boltire. (various references) свод (anticline, arch, camera, cupola, summa, vault), возведение свода. (various references) svodovi, skakanje sa osloncem, građenje svoda. (various references) de abovedado, abovedado (domed, domic, vaulted). (various references) hopp-, högtflygande, överdriven (exaggerative, excessive, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, larger than life, obsessive, outrageous, overblown, overdone). (various references) sıçrama (bounce, bouncing, bound, caper, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, rush, saltation, skip, skipping, splash, spring, springing, start, take off, vault), kubbe (canopy, cupola, dome, vault), kemerli yapı, kemer (arch, archway, band, belt, cincture, cove, cummerbund, fascia, girdle, strap, waistband, zone), atlama (crossover, dive, hop, jump, jumping, leap, omission, skip, skipping, spring, take off, vault). (various references) стрибання (bouncing, dancing, leaping), склепіння (arc, arch, barrel, camera, cove, coving, vault), спорудження склепіння (arching), що стриба" (jumpy, salient). (various references) sự nhảy s o (pole-jumping, pole-vaulting), môn nhảy s o, môn nhảy ngựa gỗ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fornicatio, fornicatione, fornicationem, fornicationes, fornicationi, fornicationibus, fornicationis, fornicationum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vaulting": vaultingly, vaultings. (additional references) | |
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"Vaulting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vaulten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vaulting" (pronounced vô"lting) |
| 5 | -ô" l t i ng | assaulting, defaulting, exalting, faulting, halting, malting, salting. |
| 4 | -l t i ng | belting, bolting, catapulting, consulting, insulting, jolting, melting, molting, quilting, resulting, revolting, smelting, somersaulting, tilting, wilting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, snorting, soliciting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: valuing. | |
-2 letters: laving, lingua, luting, nilgau. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, anvil, gault, gaunt, giant, glint, guilt, liang, ligan, linga, lungi, nival, unlit, until, vault, vaunt, vinal, vital. | |
-4 letters: agin, alit, anil, anti, aunt, gain, gait, gaun, gilt, glia, glut, gnat, guan, iglu, lain, lang, lati, ling, lint, litu, luna, lung, lunt, nail, tail, tain, tali, tang, ting, tuna, tung, ulan, ulna, ulva, unai, unit, vagi, vail, vain, vang, vatu, vial, viga, vina, vita. | |
-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, gal, gan, gat, gin, git, gnu, gul, gun, gut, guv, lag, lat, lav, lin, lit, lug, luv, nag, nil, nit, nut, tag, tan, tau, tav, til, tin, tug, tui, tun, uta, van, vat, vau, via, vig, vug. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: ovulating, valuating, vaultings. | |
+2 letters: eluviating, evaluating, outvaluing, vaultingly, vauntingly, victualing. | |
+3 letters: autoclaving, cultivating, devaluating, outcaviling, outrivaling, revaluating, victualling. | |
+4 letters: outcavilling, outrivalling, reevaluating, revictualing, transvaluing, vesiculating. | |
+5 letters: agglutinative, cocultivating, misevaluating, recultivating, revictualling, undeviatingly, vulcanologist, vulgarization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 75 6C 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- ..- .-.. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a u l t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0075 006C 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5667877886758073 |
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