soar
verbosustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//sɔː//
- Estados Unidos//soɹ//
- Australia//soː//
- Escocia//soɾ//
- //soː//
To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
verbo
- 1
To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,
- 2
To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- 3
To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- 4
To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.
- 5
figuradoTo rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,
Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.
KORRIS: I have tasted your heart. You have been with them, but you are still "of" us. Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight.
- 6
To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.
Etimología
From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.
sustantivo
- 1
The act of soaring.
c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon
- 2
An upward flight.
Formas
- plural
- soars
- pasado
- soared
- participio
- soared
- gerundio
- soaring
- 3.ª persona del singular
- soars
soar · To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
Soar · A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.soaring · The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or…sob · A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.