Associations to the word «Aerial»

AERIAL, adjective. Living or taking place in the air. [from 16th c.]

AERIAL, adjective. (now literary or historical) Made up of air or gas; gaseous. [from 16th c.]

AERIAL, adjective. Positioned high up; elevated. [from 16th c.]

AERIAL, adjective. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary. [from 16th c.]

AERIAL, adjective. Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric. [from 17th c.]

AERIAL, adjective. Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft. [from 17th c.]

AERIAL, noun. (chiefly UK) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.

AERIAL, noun. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.

AERIAL, noun. (photography) aerial photography

AERIAL CABLEWAY, noun. A large assortment of cables, suspended above the ground at a minesite or quarry, used to transport tools and equipment over rough territory.

AERIAL CAMERA, noun. A camera that is placed on an aircraft or anything else that goes into the sky, used to get a bird's eye view of locations.

AERIAL DEVICE, noun. An aerial work platform.

AERIAL DEVICES, noun. Plural of aerial device

AERIAL LADDER, noun. A ladder that can be mechanically extended, used for fire trucks

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, noun. The activity or technique of photographing the earth's surface from an aircraft, rocket, etc; such photographs collectively.

AERIAL PING PONG, noun. (derisive and/or humorous) Australian rules football.

AERIAL RAILWAY, noun. A system involving an enclosed carriage suspended on a series of wires, usually attached to a steep mountain slope, used for personal transportation over normally untraversable territory.

AERIAL RAILWAYS, noun. Plural of aerial railway

AERIAL ROOT, noun. (botany) Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.

AERIAL ROOTS, noun. Plural of aerial root

AERIAL ROPEWAY, noun. An arrangement of overhead cables suspended from towers and supporting travelling buckets used for transporting ore, rock, materials and or people, usually over rough terrain.

AERIAL RUNWAY, noun. Zipline

AERIAL RUNWAYS, noun. Plural of aerial runway

AERIAL SURVEY, noun. A method of collecting information by utilizing aerial photography. or from remote sensing technology using other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gamma-ray, or ultraviolet.

AERIAL SURVEYING, noun. Any type of information gathering accomplished from an aerospace vehicle in flight

AERIAL WORK PLATFORM, noun. A mechanical device used to provide temporary access to areas at high levels.

AERIAL WORK PLATFORMS, noun. Plural of aerial work platform

AERIAL, noun. A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.

AERIAL, noun. An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals.

AERIAL, adjective. 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".

AERIAL, adjective. 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".