aerial

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A spokesman for the Licensing authority said: 'You used to be able to spot one of our vehicles a mile off as the aerial could be almost as big as the van.

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  1. adjective Of, in, or caused by the air.
  2. adjective Existing or living in the air.
  3. adjective Reaching high into the air; lofty.

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  • During one of these the engineer responsible for the aerial, Dr. Sailer, slipped on the ladder between the gondola and the special basket holding the aerial. —  The Narrow Margin
  • This extensive sea of lava was probably sub-aerial, because bubbles often appear as coming out of the rock into the vitreous scum on the surface of each wave: in some cases they have broken and left circular rings with raised edges, peculiar to any boiling viscous fluid. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • The radio transmitter aerial was in one sleeve of the jacket, the receiving aerial in the other The receiving aerial was a loop, and by pointing the arm in various directions, the position of another diver using one of the transmitters could be ascertained Doc switched on the radio, which was waterproof, and twirled the wave-length knob. —  020 - Death In Silver
  • Now no one remained by the fires, either fleeing to Urza or fleeing away to the dens carved into the rock off the main hall Those who will not come, ; Urza shouted out as he focused his mind on the coming planeswalk, ;if you survive get yourself to the colony farthest from the palace-the Arizon colony on the aerial island called Jobboc. —  J
  • ;Prepare for landing Below the ship-Karn still saw all the world through the ray weapons at bow and stern-the aerial island called Jabboc floated black and forbidding against the descending dome of Serra's Realm. —  J
 

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long-range ·  naval ·  tactical ·  airborne ·  celestial ·  underwater ·  mental ·  visual ·  fast ·  maritime ·  incoming ·  orbital

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aerial:   aerials
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. From Latin āerius, from Greek āerios, from āēr, air; see wer-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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