4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: aerial \aerial\, Aerial \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; the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin. [1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal. [1913 Webster] 3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. Light as air; ethereal. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: aerial adj 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}] n 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 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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