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vaulting
1[ vawl-ting ]
vaulting
2[ vawl-ting ]
adjective
- leaping up or over.
- used in vaulting:
a vaulting pole.
- excessive in ambition or presumption; overweening; high-flown:
vaulting ambition;
vaulting pride.
vaulting
1/ ˈvɔːltɪŋ /
noun
- one or more vaults in a building or such structures considered collectively
vaulting
2/ ˈvɔːltɪŋ /
adjective
- excessively confident; overreaching; exaggerated
vaulting arrogance
- used to vault
a vaulting pole
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The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.
Yet it is his warnings that stand up better than the more vaulting ambitions of some of Grunwald's more preferred protagonists.
The blockbuster Rush Hour films soon followed, immediately vaulting Tucker to the A-list.
The nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.
They saw faint images of painted martyrs and angels peering down from the frieze and vaulting.
This roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling.
There was no vaulting, the church having a timber-work roof in shape of an inverted keel.
At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.
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