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vaulting

/vawl-ting/US // ˈvɔl tɪŋ //UK // (ˈvɔːltɪŋ) //

跳马,跃马,跳高,拱顶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of constructing vaults.
    • : the structure forming a vault.
    • : a vault, vaulted ceiling, etc., or such structures collectively.

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Examples

  • The combination of its vaulting promise and tenuous future captures well the larger state of play in the world of green jobs.

  • One in particular is worth looking at, in light of what happened to Biles on the vaulting floor in Tokyo on July 27, 2021.

  • One fliptwisttwisttableElite male gymnasts, who use a higher vaulting table and generally have more power, already have performed double-flipping Yurchenkos in competition, but it’s still not common.

  • The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.

  • Yet it is his warnings that stand up better than the more vaulting ambitions of some of Grunwald's more preferred protagonists.

  • The blockbuster Rush Hour films soon followed, immediately vaulting Tucker to the A-list.

  • The nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.

  • They saw faint images of painted martyrs and angels peering down from the frieze and vaulting.

  • This roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling.

  • There was no vaulting, the church having a timber-work roof in shape of an inverted keel.

  • At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.