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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



... moon is a very simler body to the earth,' explained Didlum, describing an aerial circle with a wave of his hand. They moves through the air together, but the earth is always nearest to the sun and consequently once a fortnight the shadder of the earth falls on the moon and darkens it so that it's invisible to the naked eye. The new moon is caused by the moon movin' a little ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... been more than a bridle path. On the other hand, wherever the great Roman Empire stepped, it engineered mighty thoroughfares which are a marvel to this day. A road is the thread on which the beads of history are strung; the beads of peace as well as those of war. Thrilling as is the progress of aerial navigation, with its infinite possibilities of human intercourse, yet surely, when the entire history of man is unrolled, the moment of the conception of building a wide and permanent road, instead of merely using a trail, ...
— The Old Coast Road - From Boston to Plymouth • Agnes Rothery
... went on with their performance, They cut out "the dive for life," but they made up for it by some dazzling aerial evolutions that thrilled the spectators, and everybody ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... what a meaning in that cassock! It spoke of confession, of ritual, of transubstantiation, of all the great historic romance of Rome ecclesiastical. The great romance of Rome: its holy footsteps of St. Peter, its aerial dome of Michael Angelo, its Vatican of ancient manuscripts, of beauteous statue and chariot—the great romance of Rome, its Borgia, its dungeons and flames of the Inquisition. A picture of two figures only, ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... diminished force over the broad expanse, so that the northern shores of the Black and Caspian Seas in January have about the same temperature as Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The mountains of Western Europe shut off the aerial current of the Gulf Stream which tempers the summer heat as well as the winter cold. (p. 019) Russia's climate, therefore, is one of extremes. In summer the heat is very oppressive, owing to the absence of the sea breeze which elsewhere affords so much relief; and ...
— The Story of Russia • R. Van Bergen


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