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soar

   [sawr, sohr]
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.
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noun
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an act or instance of soaring.
7.
the height attained in soaring.

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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English soren < Middle French essorer < Vulgar Latin *exaurāre, equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + aur(a) air + -āre infinitive suffix

Related forms
soar·er, noun
soar·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. See fly1. 4. tower; mount.

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soar (sɔː)
 
—vb
1.  to rise or fly upwards into the air
2.  (of a bird, aircraft, etc) to glide while maintaining altitude by the use of ascending air currents
3.  to rise or increase in volume, size, etc: soaring prices
 
—n
4.  the act of soaring
5.  the altitude attained by soaring
 
[C14: from Old French essorer, from Vulgar Latin exaurāre (unattested) to expose to the breezes, from Latin ex-1 + aura a breeze]
 
'soarer
 
—n
 
'soaring
 
—n, —adj

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soar
late 14c., from O.Fr. essorer "fly up, soar," from V.L. *exaurare "rise into the air," from L. ex- "out" + aura "breeze, air."
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SOAR definition


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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