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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

... Andree to reach the Pole in a balloon, which followed on the heels of Nansen's enterprise. Andree, who was a professor in the Technical School at Stockholm, had been for some years interested in the rising science of aerial navigation. He judged that by this means a way might be found to the Pole where all else failed. By the generous aid of the king of Sweden, Baron Dickson and others, he had a balloon constructed in Paris which represented the very latest progress towards the mastery of the air, in ...

— Adventurers of the Far North - A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas • Stephen Leacock

... walked around a scale model of Harvest Moon, the O.G. station, which occupied the center of the Hall, and went on among the exhibits. There were views taken on Manon Planet in one alcove, mainly of Manon's aerial plankton belt and of the giant plasmoids called Harvesters which had moved about the belt, methodically engulfing its clouds of living matter. A whale-sized replica of a Harvester dominated one end of the ...

— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... calm Connecticut the hills lie Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom, The swallows weave in flight across the zenith On an aerial loom. ...

— Flame and Shadow • Sara Teasdale

... Calderon; but here he is, in my opinion, less deserving of praise. By him the ethereal and delicately-tinted poetry of the Spaniard is uniformly vulgarised, and deepened with the most glaring colours; while the weight of his masks draws the aerial tissue to the ground, for the humorous introduction of the gracioso in the Spanish is of far finer texture. On the other hand, the wonderful extravagance of the masked parts serves as an admirable contrast to the wild marvels of fairy tale. Thus the character ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

... grew dark the crowd of warblers were still to be seen feeding busily, making the most of the lingering daylight. A small-billed water thrush was teetering along a willow-branch, while his congeners, the oven-birds, were practicing their aerial hymn. One of these went past me as I stood by the roadside, rising very gradually into the air and repeating all the way, Chip, chip, chip, chip, till at last he broke into the warble, which was a full half longer than usual. He was evidently doing his ...

— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey

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