SOARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soaring mean? 

• SOARING (noun)
  The noun SOARING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of flying a glider

  Familiarity information: SOARING used as a noun is very rare.

• SOARING (adjective)
  The adjective SOARING has 2 senses:

1. ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual

2. of imposing height; especially standing out above others

  Familiarity information: SOARING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of flying a glider

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

glide; gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring

Hypernyms ("soaring" is a kind of...):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soaring"):

hang gliding (gliding in a hang glider)

paragliding; parasailing (gliding in a parasail)

Derivation:

soar (fly a plane without an engine)

soar (fly by means of a hang glider)

• SOARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual

Context example:

soaring prices

Similar:

high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of imposing height; especially standing out above others

Synonyms:

eminent; lofty; soaring; towering

Context example:

towering icebergs

Similar:

high ((literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like 'knee-high'))

 Context examples 

It was like strong drink, firing him to audacities of feeling,—a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

During its mission of exploration, Juno will circle the Jovian world 37 times, soaring low over the planet's cloud tops — as close as about 2,600 miles (4,100 kilometers).

(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)

My fancy was soaring out to my father upon the waters, when a word from Jim brought it back on to the grass like a broken-winged gull.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

—it may be a very beautiful spirit that will go soaring up into the blue from that ugly carcass.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

Still more pleased was he when, inverting a leathern pouch over the end of the reed, and so filling it with the gas, he was able to send it soaring up into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, my dear Sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which I have had no control) from the personal society of the friend and companion of my youth, I have not been unmindful of his soaring flight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And it is all very beautiful, this shaking off of the flesh and soaring of the imprisoned spirit.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)