[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

aerial \aerial\, aerial \a"e"rial\, a. l. a"erius. 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"erial regions or currents;
      the a"erial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "a"erial
      spirits." --milton. "a"erial 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"erial 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"erial rootlets, a"erial 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
see also:
air aerial acid aerial perspective perspective 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

aerial
     adj 1: in or belonging to the air or operating for or by means of
            aircraft or elevated cables in the air; "aerial
            particles"; "small aerial creatures such as
            butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography";
            "aerial cable cars"
     2: growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"
     3: 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" syn: aeriform, airy, aery, ethereal
     n 1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer syn: forward
          pass
     2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or
        television signals syn: antenna, transmitting aerial
see also:
aeriform airy aery ethereal forward pass antenna 
transmitting aerial 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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