Aerial
['eərɪəl] or ['ɛrɪəl]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
Checked by Brady--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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, aerial regions or currents.
(a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
(a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.
(a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.
(a.) Light as air; ethereal.
Checker: Sandra
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Atmospheric.[2]. Aeriform, gaseous, vaporous, ethereal, airy, empyreal, light.[3]. High, lofty.
Editor: Maggie
Definition
adj. belonging to the air: inhabiting or existing in the air: elevated lofty ethereal.—ns. Aerial′ity Aer′ialness.—adv. Aer′ially.
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Examples
- It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,--delicate and aerial. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Information is flashed to meet or overtake the vessel and caught up by her aerial, as she pursues her way at twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They made new tables of calculation for aerial flight, and found that a wind of eighteen miles an hour would keep their plane and its operator in the air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The new plants, now that they had acquired the power to live this new aerial life, developed with an extraordinary richness and variety. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Langley had in fact furnished experimental proof that the aerial locomotion of bodies many times heavier than air was possible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There will be an aerial bombardment as preparation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Such a thing as aerial fighting was unheard of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a radio-aerial message to the commander of the submarine: The slaves have risen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What is an Aerial Railway Like? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I was too old a hand in aerial warfare to be at a loss now for the right manoeuvre. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Pictorial Story of Fire Apparatus [Illustration: MOTOR DRIVEN AERIAL TRUCK[47] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For aerial ropeways they are extensively employed, and are of high value in bridge building, the suspension bridge being sustained by them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Although terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aerial mammals do occur on almost every island. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A flash of lightning is liable to give rise to a wave of enormous power which will set half the aerials on the earth vibrating in spite of the differences of pitch to which they are tuned. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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