Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or practice of a vaulter.
  • noun In architecture, vaulted work; vaults collectively.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
  • noun Act of one who vaults or leaps.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
  • noun A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
  • noun The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
  • verb Present participle of vault.
  • adjective Leaning upward or over
  • adjective Exaggerated or overreaching
  • adjective performing

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
  • adjective revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
  • noun (architecture) a vaulted structure

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Examples

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  • Seventeen inches of rainbow, plump as a Buddha and colored like a slice of summer, decides to reconnoiter, vaulting from the water to nearly eye level, then bolting downriver.

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  • Ginobili has filled the scoring void, vaulting from a 9.4 points-per-game contributor on the Spurs '2003 NBA title team to the scoring leader in the infant stage of these playoffs.

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  • The company projects an overall reduction in its footprint of long-term vaulting or compliance copies by approximately

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  • In the face of rising power and cooling requirements and escalating growth rates, deduplication with tape offers a game-changing advantage for customers by reducing the footprint of long-term vaulting or compliance copies by up to 90 percent.

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  • By reducing the amount of data under management, across all its storage tiers, from primary storage through to tape, Rooms To Go claims it is slashing its tape media and long-term vaulting costs nearly in half.

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  • The vaulting is a groined arch 6 ins. thick at the crown and

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  • Norman, but the received opinion ascribes these Ripon examples to the time of Archbishop Roger, and it will be observed that their position harmonizes with the bays of the vaulting, which is presumably his, but has no relation externally to the spacing of the windows of the crypt, which, moreover, have an external splay.

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