Aerial

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  • adjective. Of, in, or caused by the air.
  • adjective. Existing or living in the air.
  • adjective. Reaching high into the air; lofty.
  • adjective. Suggestive of air, as in lightness; airy.
  • adjective. Unsubstantial; imaginary.
  • adjective. Of, for, or by means of aircraft.
  • adjective. Growing or borne above the ground or water.
  • noun. A radio antenna, especially one suspended in or extending into the air.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An acrobatic maneuver performed in midair, as in skateboarding.
  • noun. A flip in which the body turns over sideways with the arms and legs spread similar to a cartwheel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging or pertaining to the air or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; existing or happening in the air; produced by or in the air: as, aërial regions; aërial perspective; aërial songsters; aërial ascents.
  • Consisting of air; partaking of the nature of air; airy; hence, unsubstantial; visionary: as, aërial beings; aërial fancies; an aërial castle.
  • Reaching far into the air; high; lofty; elevated: as, aërial spires; an aërial flight.
  • Possessed of a light and graceful beauty; ethereal.
  • In botany, growing in the air, and independently of the soil, as epiphytes, or the adventitious roots of some trees: as, aërial orchids or roots.
  • A name sometimes applied to systems of transportation by cars suspended from a rail or rope above them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air.
  • adjective. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
  • adjective. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty.
  • adjective. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground.
  • adjective. Light as air; ethereal.
  • adjective. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated cables.
  • adjective. operating or moving in the air.
  • adjective. carbonic acid.
  • adjective. See Perspective.
  • noun. a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.
  • noun. a metallic wire, rod, or combination of rods connected to an electronic device, designed to send or receive radio or television signals.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. of, in, or from the air; atmospheric
  • adjective. ethereal
  • noun. A device for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
  • noun. A dance move involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. existing or living or growing or operating in the air
  • noun. an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
  • adjective. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
  • noun. a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer
  • Word Usage
    "Electronic imaging and laser guidance had changed the term aerial bombardment into precision air attack ."