vaulting

/'vɔ:ltiɳ/

Thân thiện

A horse performs a vaulting leap over a low fence.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A light leap by a horse: A movement where a horse springs from its hind legs, with all four legs off the ground before the forelegs land.
   • An arched structure: In architecture, a system of arches or a vaulted ceiling forming a roof or support.

2. Adjective:

   • Reaching for the heights, overly ambitious: Used to describe an ambition or confidence that is excessive or soars to great heights.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Equestrian):
  • The horse's elegant vaulting impressed the judges at the show.
• Noun (Architecture):
  • The Gothic cathedral is famous for its intricate stone vaulting.
• Adjective:
  • His vaulting ambition ultimately led to his downfall.

Advanced Usage

• "Vaulting ambition": A classic phrase, popularized by Shakespeare's , describing an ambition that overleaps itself or is dangerously overreaching.
  • The character is driven by a vaulting ambition that knows no moral bounds.

Variants and Related Words

• Vault (verb/noun): To leap over; or an arched roof.
  • She can vault the fence easily.
  • The money was stored in a bank vault.
• Vaunter (noun): A person who boasts. (Shares the connotation of excessive display found in the adjective 'vaulting').

Synonyms

• Noun (leap): Curvet, capriole.
• Noun (structure): Arch, dome.
• Adjective: Overreaching, soaring, overambitious.

Related Phrases

• Pole vaulting (compound noun): The athletic sport of jumping over a high bar using a long, flexible pole.
  • She won a gold medal in pole vaulting.
• Vaulting horse (compound noun): A piece of gymnastics apparatus.
  • The gymnast performed a routine on the vaulting horse.

Related Idioms

• Vaulting ambition: An idiom directly using the adjective form, meaning an ambition that is excessive and risky.
  • It was his vaulting ambition that blinded him to the risks.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
   • vaulting ambition

Noun

1. a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
2. (architecture) a vaulted structure
   • arches and vaulting

Từ đồng nghĩa

• overreaching
• curvet