SkyfireDict

aerial   (TTS Sound)

The noun aerial has 2 senses

• forward pass, aerial -- (a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer)


• antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial -- (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)

The adj aerial has 2 senses

• aerial -- (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")


• aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal -- (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")