[syn: sailplane, soar]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soar \Soar\, n.
The act of soaring; upward flight.
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This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. --Coleridge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soar \Soar\, a.
See 3d Sore. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soar \Soar\, a.
See Sore, reddish brown.
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Soar falcon. (Zool.) See Sore falcon, under Sore.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soar \Soar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Soared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Soaring.] [F. s'essorer to soar, essorer to dry (by
exposing to the air), fr. L. ex out + aura the air, a breeze;
akin to Gr. ?????.]
1. To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as
on wings. --Chaucer.
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When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.
--Byron.
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2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be
exalted in mood.
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Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton.
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Valor soars above
What the world calls misfortune. --Addison.
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3. (Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely
without loss of altitude.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
soar
n 1: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom]
v 1: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn:
soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]
2: fly by means of a hang glider [syn: hang glide, soar]
3: fly upwards or high in the sky
4: go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-
fire was announced"
5: fly a plane without an engine [syn: sailplane, soar]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
SOAR
1. State, Operator And Result. A general problem-solving
production system architecture, intended as a model of human
intelligence. Developed by A. Newell in the early 1980s.
SOAR was originally implemented in Lisp and OPS5 and is
currently implemented in Common Lisp. Version: Soar6.
E-mail: .
["The SOAR Papers", P.S. Rosenbloom et al eds, MIT Press
1993].
(1994-11-04)
2. Smalltalk On A RISC. A RISC microprocessor designed by
David Patterson's at Berekeley.
(1994-11-04)