aerial

aerial
    adj 1: existing or living or growing or operating in the air;
           "aerial roots of a philodendron"; "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; "figures light and aeriform
       come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial
       fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than
       ethereal forms" [syn: {aeriform}, {aerial}, {airy}, {aery},
       {ethereal}]
    n 1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn:
         {forward pass}, {aerial}]
    2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or
       television signals [syn: {antenna}, {aerial}, {transmitting
       aerial}]
    

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.
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   2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
      of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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   3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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   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.
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   5. Light as air; ethereal.
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   6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
      cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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   7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
      aerial combat
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   {Aerial acid}, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.

   {Aerial perspective}. See {Perspective}.
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aerial \aerial\ n.
   1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.

   Syn: forward pass
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   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
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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