AERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aerial mean? 

• AERIAL (noun)
  The noun AERIAL has 2 senses:

1. a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

2. an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

  Familiarity information: AERIAL used as a noun is rare.

• AERIAL (adjective)
  The adjective AERIAL has 2 senses:

1. existing or living or growing or operating in the air

2. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

  Familiarity information: AERIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AERIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aerial; forward pass

Hypernyms ("aerial" is a kind of...):

pass; passing; passing game; passing play ((American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aerial"):

flare; flare pass (a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines)

screen pass (a short forward pass in which the receiver is protected by a screen of blockers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aerial; antenna; transmitting aerial

Hypernyms ("aerial" is a kind of...):

electrical device (a device that produces or is powered by electricity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aerial"):

dipole; dipole antenna (an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center)

directional antenna (an antenna that transmits or receives signals only in a narrow angle)

nondirectional antenna; omnidirectional antenna (an antenna that sends or receives signals equally in all directions)

Holonyms ("aerial" is a part of...):

receiver; receiving system (set that receives radio or tv signals)

sender; transmitter (set used to broadcast radio or tv signals)

• AERIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing or living or growing or operating in the air

Context example:

aerial cable cars

Similar:

free-flying (able to fly through the air (as a bird))

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Derivation:

air (the region above the ground)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

Synonyms:

aerial; aeriform; aery; airy; ethereal

Context example:

physical rather than ethereal forms

Similar:

insubstantial; unreal; unsubstantial (lacking material form or substance; unreal)

 Context examples 

The parts used are the aerial parts, root, flowers and/or seeds depending on the remedy.

(Motherwort, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is spore forming, nonacid-fast, urease negative, catalase positive, hydrolyzes starch, gelatin, esculin, xanthine, and hypoxanthine, reduces nitrate, and produces an aerial hyphae and substrate mycelium that fragments into coccoid elements.

(Nocardia dassonvillei, NCI Thesaurus)

The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping scanner have discovered the ruins of tens of thousands of ancient Mayan structures that have been hidden and preserved for centuries under northern Guatemala's thick jungle.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

The results could inspire more robust and computationally efficient visual control algorithms for autonomous aerial robots.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

The study was based on a three-year mapping effort conducted by an international team of scientists affiliated with the Ocean Cleanup Foundation, six universities and an aerial sensor company.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

In this work, researchers used aerial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) imaging technology to scan areas within Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Park in California.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,—delicate and aerial.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This species is yellow with extensively branched vegetative hyphae without an aerial mycelium which breaks into motile rod shaped elements, is catalase positive, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes casein, gelatin and starch, is not acid-fast, mesophilic, utilizes acetate, lactate, and pyruvate.

(Oerskovia turbata, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and urease positive, reduces nitrate, does not produce acid phosphatase, hydrolyzes esculin and testosterone, but not casein, elastin, hypoxanthine, tyrosine, and xanthine, and produces a mycelium and aerial hyphae that fragments into coccoid elements.

(Nocardia farcinica, NCI Thesaurus)