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Aerial   /ˈɛriəl/   Listen
Aerial

adjective
1.
Existing or living or growing or operating in the air.  "Aerial particles" , "Small aerial creatures such as butterflies" , "Aerial warfare" , "Aerial photography" , "Aerial cable cars"
2.
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.  Synonyms: aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal.  "Aerial fancies" , "An airy apparition" , "Physical rather than ethereal forms"
noun
1.
A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.  Synonym: forward pass.
2.
An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.  Synonyms: antenna, transmitting aerial.



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"Aerial" Quotes from Famous Books



... his machine or if he is forced to make a quick landing. In the fresh, still morning, with the camp just waking up and the curious Turkish currycombs clinking away over by the tethered horses, our aerial visitor added only a pleasant excitement to this life in the open, and we went on with our dressing with great satisfaction, little dreaming how soon we were to look at one of those ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl
... great misery strange things bring us happiness; the thought of her condemnation to death lifted her like an aerial tide, because being with Germain went ...
— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall
... dropped the subject with almost ludicrous haste; and, after a few commonplace observations, made a nice comfortable dose of grog and bark for him. This she administered as an independent transaction, and not at all by way of comment on his antagonists, the aerial messengers. ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... supernatural creation of the present forms of life; modern science teaches that they have come about by evolution. The first chapter of Genesis teaches the successive origin—firstly, of all the plants; secondly, of all the aquatic and aerial animals; thirdly, of all the terrestrial animals, which now exist—during distinct intervals of time; modern science teaches that, throughout all the duration of an immensely long past, so far as we have any adequate knowledge of it (that is far back as the Silurian epoch), plants, aquatic, ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... dame With her companion to the cottage came, Upon Ser Federigo's brain there fell The wild enchantment of a magic spell; The room they entered, mean and low and small, Was changed into a sumptuous banquet-hall, With fanfares by aerial trumpets blown; The rustic chair she sat on was a throne; He ate celestial food, and a divine Flavor was given to his country wine, And the poor falcon, fragrant with his spice, A peacock was, or ...
— Tales of a Wayside Inn • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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