1. An electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
   "The radio station installed a new transmitting aerial to improve broadcast coverage";
   - antenna, transmitting aerial
    
2. A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer
   "The quarterback threw a long aerial to the wide receiver in the end zone";
   - forward pass

1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
   "aerial fancies";
   - aeriform, airy, aery, ethereal, etherial
    
2. (botany) existing, living, growing or operating in the air
   "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"; "aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"

Sounds like: areal, ariel, Ariel

Derived forms: aerials

See also: free-flying, insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial

Type of: electrical device, pass, passing, passing game, passing play

Part of: receiver, receiving system, sender, transmitter

Encyclopedia: Aerial, Georgia