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aerial 音标拼音: ['ɛriəl] a. 空中的,航空的,空想的,空气的 空中的,航空的,空想的,空气的 aerial架空 空中 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" [ synonym: { aeriform}, { aerial}, { airy}, { aery}, { ethereal}] n 1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [ synonym: { forward pass}, { aerial}] 2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals [ synonym: { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a[" e] rial spires. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Light as air; ethereal. [ 1913 Webster] 6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials [ WordNet 1. 5] 7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car; aerial combat [ WordNet 1. 5] { Aerial acid}, carbonic acid. [ Obs.] -- Ure. { Aerial perspective}. See { Perspective}. [ 1913 Webster]
aerial \ aerial\ n. 1. ( Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer. Syn: forward pass [ WordNet 1. 5] 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 [ WordNet 1. 5] 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
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