 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aerial
adjective
1: 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"
2: growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"
3: 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" [syn: {aeriform}, {airy}, {aery}, {ethereal}]
noun
1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn: {forward
pass}]
2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or
television signals [syn: {antenna}, {transmitting aerial}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, adjective [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;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. ''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, living, 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; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
5. Light as air; ethereal.
6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
[WordNet 1.5]
7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
[WordNet 1.5]
{Aerial acid}, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
{Aerial perspective}. See {Perspective}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
aerial \aerial\ n.
1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.
Syn: forward pass
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a metallic wire, rod, or combination of rods connected to
an electronic device, designed to send or receive radio or
television signals.
Syn: antenna
[WordNet 1.5]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "aerial":
Olympian, aerials, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerophysical, aerospace,
aerostatic, aerotechnical, aery, air-built, air-conscious,
air-minded, air-wise, airish, airlike, airsick, 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,
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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