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soar

  [sawr, sohr]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to fly upward, as a bird.
2. to fly at a great height, without visible movements of the pinions, as a bird.
3. to glide along at a height, as an airplane.
4. to rise or ascend to a height, as a mountain.
5. to rise or aspire to a higher or more exalted level: His hopes soared.
–noun
6. an act or instance of soaring.
7. the height attained in soaring.
Origin:
1325–75; ME soren < MF essorer < VL *exaurāre, equiv. to L ex- ex- 1 + aur(a) air + -āre inf. suffix

Related forms:
soarer, noun
soar⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. See fly 1 . 4. tower; mount.
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soar   (sôr, sōr)   
intr.v.   soared, soar·ing, soars

  1. To rise, fly, or glide high and with little apparent effort.

  2. To climb swiftly or powerfully.

  3. To glide in an aircraft while maintaining altitude.

  4. To ascend suddenly above the normal or usual level: Our spirits soared. See Synonyms at rise.

n.  

  1. The act of soaring.

  2. The altitude or scope attained in soaring.


[Middle English soren, from Old French essorer, from Vulgar Latin *exaurāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin aura, air (from Greek, breeze; see aura).]
soar'er n., soar'ing·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

soar 
c.1374, from O.Fr. essorer "fly up, soar," from V.L. *exaurare "rise into the air," from L. ex- "out" + aura "breeze, air."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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