Meaning of AERIAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'ehreeul
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer
- [n] an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
- [adj] characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
- [adj] (botany) growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"
- [adj] in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"
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AERIAL is a 6 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | aeriform, aery, air(a), airy, antenna, ethereal, forward pass, insubstantial, transmitting aerial, unreal, unsubstantial |
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| | See Also: | | dipole, dipole antenna, directional antenna, electrical device, nondirectional antenna, omnidirectional antenna, pass, passing, passing game, passing play, receiver, receiving system, screen pass, sender, transmitter | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. See {Air}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or
frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air;
performed in the air; as, a["e]rial regions or currents.
``A["e]rial spirits.'' --Milton. ``A["e]rial voyages.''
--Darwin.
2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
4. Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to
growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as,
a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants. --Gray.
5. Light as air; ethereal.
{A["e]rial acid}, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
{A["e]rial perspective}. See {Perspective}.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Something that is found in or takes place in the air. |
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| | Related Terms: | | aerials, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerophysical, aerospace, aerostatic, aerotechnical, aery, air-built, air-conscious, airish, airlike, air-minded, airsick, air-wise, airworthy, airy, alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, aspiring, atmospheric, aviational, breezy, chimeric, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, colossal, directional antenna, dish, dominating, doublet, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, exposed, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, haughty, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, immaterial, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, incorporeal, light, lofty, mast, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, monumental, mounting, Olympian, open-air, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, pneumatic, prominent, reeking, reeky, reflector, rhombic antenna, roomy, skyscraping, smoking, smoky, soaring, spiring, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime, superlative, supernal, topless, toplofty, topping, tower, towering, towery, transmitting antenna, tropospheric, uplifted, upreared, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, wave antenna |
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