soar
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)soars, soared, soaring
- rise rapidly“the dollar soared against the yen”Synonyms: soar upsoar upwardssurgezoomMore general rise, liftMore specific billow, wallow
- fly by means of a hang gliderSynonyms: hang glideMore general fly, aviateInvolves glide
- fly upwards or high in the skyMore general fly, wing
- go or move upward“The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced”More general rise, go up
- fly a plane without an engineSynonyms: sailplaneMore general glideInvolves fly, aviate
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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. Geoffrey Chaucer
When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
Where the deep transported mind may soar.— John Milton
Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.— Joseph Addison
3. Aeronautics To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude.
The act of soaring; upward flight.
This apparent soar of the hooded falcon.— Samuel T. Coleridge
See 3d Sore. obsolete
See Sore, reddish brown.
Soar falcon. Zoology See Sore falcon, under Sore.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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: <soar@cs.cmu.edu>.
["The SOAR Papers", P.S. Rosenbloom et al eds, MIT Press 1993].
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2.Smalltalk On A RISC. A RISC microprocessor designed by David Patterson's at Berekeley.
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