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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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Soar

Soar\, v. i. (A["e]ronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude.

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.

When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled. --Byron.

2. Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

Where the deep transported mind may soar. --Milton.

Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune. --Addison.

Soar

Soar\, n. The act of soaring; upward flight.

This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. --Coleridge.

Soar

Soar\, a. See 3d Sore. [Obs.]

Soar

Soar\, a. See Sore, reddish brown.

Soar falcon. (Zo["o]l.) See Sore falcon, under Sore.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : soar
Spanish: volar, remontar el vuelo, remontarse,
German: aufsteigen,
Japanese: 舞い上がる
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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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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)

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