soar
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- the act of rising upward into the airSynonyms: zoom
Verb (5)
- rise rapidly“the dollar soared against the yen”Synonyms: soar upsoar upwardssurgezoom
- fly by means of a hang gliderSynonyms: hang glide
- fly upwards or high in the sky
- go or move upward“The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced”
- fly a plane without an engineSynonyms: sailplane
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
This apparent soar of the hooded falcon. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Soar falcon. (Zool.) See Sore falcon, under Sore. [1913 Webster]
1.To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
When soars Gaul's vulture with his wings unfurled.— Byron.[1913 Webster]
2.Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. [1913 Webster]
Where the deep transported mind may soar.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Valor soars above What the world calls misfortune.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
3.(Aeronautics) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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: <soar@cs.cmu.edu>.
["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)