vaulting

¹

[ vawl-ting ]

noun

1. the act or process of constructing vaults. vault.
2. the structure forming a vault.
3. a vault, vaulted vault vaulted ceiling, etc., or such structures collectively.

vaulting

²

[ vawl-ting ]

adjective

1. leaping up or over.
2. used in vaulting:

   a vaulting pole.

3. excessive in ambition or presumption; overweening; high-flown:

   vaulting ambition;

   vaulting pride.

vaulting

¹

/ ˈvɔːltɪŋ /

adjective

1. excessively confident; overreaching; exaggerated

   vaulting arrogance

2. used to vault

   a vaulting pole

vaulting

²

/ ˈvɔːltɪŋ /

noun

1. one or more vaults in a building or such structures considered collectively

Word History and Origins

Origin of vaulting¹

First recorded in 1505–15; vault ¹ + -ing ¹

Origin of vaulting²

First recorded in 1525–35; vault ² + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Beyond this, Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which seeks to transform the whole of Eurasia, and the maritime “String of Pearls” concept, which attempts something similar in the Indo-Pacific, shows the PRC’s vaulting ambition.

From Time

We’re not pole-vaulting over the lines here, but it’s more than what has been in the past, but it remains to be seen what the Congressional reaction to this will be and I think that’s what’s making everyone very nervous right now.

From Digiday

The combination of its vaulting promise and tenuous future captures well the larger state of play in the world of green jobs.

From Time

One in particular is worth looking at, in light of what happened to Biles on the vaulting floor in Tokyo on July 27, 2021.

From Washington Post

One fliptwisttwisttableElite male gymnasts, who use a higher vaulting table and generally have more power, already have performed double-flipping Yurchenkos in competition, but it’s still not common.

From Washington Post

The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.

From The Daily Beast

Yet it is his warnings that stand up better than the more vaulting ambitions of some of Grunwald's more preferred protagonists.

From The Daily Beast

The blockbuster Rush Hour films soon followed, immediately vaulting Tucker to the A-list.

From The Daily Beast

The nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.

From Project Gutenberg

They saw faint images of painted martyrs and angels peering down from the frieze and vaulting.

From Project Gutenberg

This roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no vaulting, the church having a timber-work roof in shape of an inverted keel.

From Project Gutenberg

At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.

From Project Gutenberg