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aerial
(encz) | aerial,anténa n: |
aerial
(encz) | aerial,letecký adj: |
aerial
(encz) | aerial,vzduchový adj: |
aerial
(encz) | aerial,vzdušný adj: |
Aerial
(gcide) | aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. 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["e]rial regions or currents;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial
spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin.
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2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as
opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or
underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
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5. Light as air; ethereal.
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6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
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Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
Aerial perspective. See Perspective.
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aerial
(gcide) | aerial \aerial\ n.
1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.
Syn: forward pass
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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
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aerial
(wn) | aerial
adj 1: 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"
2: 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, aerial, airy, aery,
ethereal]
n 1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn:
forward pass, aerial]
2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or
television signals [syn: antenna, aerial, {transmitting
aerial}] |
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car aerial
(mass) | car aerial
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aerial lift
(encz) | aerial lift,lanovka n: Ivan Masáraerial lift,visutá lanová dráha n: Ivan Masár |
aerial plankton
(encz) | aerial plankton,aeroplankton [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
aerial tram
(encz) | aerial tram,lanovka kabinová Pino |
aerial tramway
(encz) | aerial tramway,lanovka n: slady |
dish aerial
(encz) | dish aerial, n: |
net aerial production
(encz) | net aerial production,čistá vzdušná produkce (limnologie) [eko.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
order sphaeriales
(encz) | order Sphaeriales, n: |
radio aerial
(encz) | radio aerial, n: |
transmitting aerial
(encz) | transmitting aerial, n: |
affordable sensor technology for aerial targeting
(czen) | Affordable Sensor Technology for Aerial Targeting,ASTAT[zkr.]
[voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
uninhabited combat aerial vehicle
(czen) | Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicle,UCAV[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
unmanned aerial vehicle
(czen) | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Aerial
(gcide) | aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. 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["e]rial regions or currents;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial
spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin.
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2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as
opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or
underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
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5. Light as air; ethereal.
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6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
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Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
Aerial perspective. See Perspective.
[1913 Webster]aerial \aerial\ n.
1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.
Syn: forward pass
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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
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Aerial acid
(gcide) | aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. 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["e]rial regions or currents;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial
spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin.
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2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as
opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or
underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
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5. Light as air; ethereal.
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6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
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Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
Aerial perspective. See Perspective.
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aerial mosaic
(gcide) | Mosaic \Mo*sa"ic\, n. [F. mosa["i]que; cf. Pr. mozaic, musec,
Sp. & Pg. mosaico, It. mosaico, musaico, LGr. ?, ?, L.
musivum; all fr. Gr. ? belonging to the Muses. See Muse the
goddess.]
1. (Fine Arts) A surface decoration made by inlaying in
patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone,
or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
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2. A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated
in mosaic.
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3. Something resembling a mosaic[1]; something made up of
different pieces, fitted together by design to form a
unified composition.
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aerial mosaic An aerial photograph of a large area, made by
carefully fitting together aerial photographs of smaller
areas so that the edges match in location, and the whole
provides a continuous image of the larger area. Called
also
mosaic map and photomosaic.
mosaic virus A type of plant virus that causes green and
yellow mottling of leaves of a plant. A much-studied type
is the tobacco mosaic virus, affecting the tobacco
plant.
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Aerial navigation
(gcide) | Navigation \Nav`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. navigatio: cf. F.
navigation.]
1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in
ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
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2.
(a) The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from
one place to another, including, more especially, the
method of determining a ship's position, course,
distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the
globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.
(b) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics
of traveling by water; seamanship.
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3. Ships in general. [Poetic] --Shak.
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Aerial navigation, the act or art of sailing or floating in
the air, as by means of airplanes or ballons; aviation;
aeronautic.
Inland navigation, Internal navigation, navigation on
rivers, inland lakes, etc.
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Aerial perspective
(gcide) | aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. 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["e]rial regions or currents;
the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. "A["e]rial
spirits." --Milton. "A["e]rial voyages." --Darwin.
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2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature
of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
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3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.
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4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as
opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or
underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the
aerial roots of a philodendron. --Gray.
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5. Light as air; ethereal.
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6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated
cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials
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7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car;
aerial combat
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Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] --Ure.
Aerial perspective. See Perspective.
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Aerial railway
(gcide) | Aerial railway \A*["e]`ri*al rail"way`\
(a) A stretched wire or rope elevated above the ground and
forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for
conveying a load suspended from the trolley.
(b) An elevated cableway.
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Aerial roots
(gcide) | Root \Root\, n. [Icel. r[=o]t (for vr[=o]t); akin to E. wort,
and perhaps to root to turn up the earth. See Wort.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true
root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the
potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
(b) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a
plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity
only, not divided into joints, leafless and without
buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in
the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble
matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of
nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may
never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall,
etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air,
as in some epiphytic orchids.
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2. An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as
produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the
root crop.
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3. That which resembles a root in position or function, esp.
as a source of nourishment or support; that from which
anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the
root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
Specifically:
(a) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a
stem.
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They were the roots out of which sprang two
distinct people. --Locke.
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(b) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms
employed in language; a word from which other words
are formed; a radix, or radical.
(c) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought
about; the source. "She herself . . . is root of
bounty." --Chaucer.
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The love of money is a root of all kinds of
evil. --1 Tim. vi.
10 (rev. Ver.)
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(d) (Math.) That factor of a quantity which when
multiplied into itself will produce that quantity;
thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into
itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
(e) (Mus.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone
from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is
composed. --Busby.
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(f) The lowest place, position, or part. "Deep to the
roots of hell." --Milton. "The roots of the
mountains." --Southey.
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4. (Astrol.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
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When a root is of a birth yknowe [known]. --Chaucer.
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Aerial roots. (Bot.)
(a) Small roots emitted from the stem of a plant in the
open air, which, attaching themselves to the bark of
trees, etc., serve to support the plant.
(b) Large roots growing from the stem, etc., which descend
and establish themselves in the soil. See Illust. of
Mangrove.
Multiple primary root (Bot.), a name given to the numerous
roots emitted from the radicle in many plants, as the
squash.
Primary root (Bot.), the central, first-formed, main root,
from which the rootlets are given off.
Root and branch, every part; wholly; completely; as, to
destroy an error root and branch.
Root-and-branch men, radical reformers; -- a designation
applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation
under Radical, n., 2.
Root barnacle (Zool.), one of the Rhizocephala.
Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found
on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of
the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes.
--Gray.
Root leaf (Bot.), a radical leaf. See Radical, a., 3
(b) .
Root louse (Zool.), any plant louse, or aphid, which lives
on the roots of plants, as the Phylloxera of the
grapevine. See Phylloxera.
Root of an equation (Alg.), that value which, substituted
for the unknown quantity in an equation, satisfies the
equation.
Root of a nail
(Anat.), the part of a nail which is covered by the skin.
Root of a tooth (Anat.), the part of a tooth contained in
the socket and consisting of one or more fangs.
Secondary roots (Bot.), roots emitted from any part of the
plant above the radicle.
To strike root, To take root, to send forth roots; to
become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in
general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to
increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The
bended twigs take root." --Milton.
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Aerial sickness
(gcide) | Aerial sickness \A*["e]"ri*al sick"ness\
A sickness felt by a["e]ronauts due to high speed of flights
and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms
of mountain sickness and some of seasickness. The nauseous
symptoms similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in
pressurized aircraft is called air sickness.
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aerialist
(gcide) | aerialist \aer"i*al*ist\ n.
1. an athlete who performs acts high above the ground on a
trapeze or high wire, requiring skill and agility and
coordination.
Syn: trapeze artist
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2. a burglar who gains entrance to buildings from the
rooftop, sometimes leaping from building to building in
the process. A type of second-story man. [Slang]
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Aeriality
(gcide) | Aeriality \A*["e]`ri*al"i*ty\, n.
The state of being a["e]rial; unsubstantiality. [R.] --De
Quincey.
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Aerially
(gcide) | Aerially \A*["e]"ri*al*ly\, adv.
Like, or from, the air; in an a["e]rial manner. "A murmur
heard a["e]rially." --Tennyson.
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Subaerial
(gcide) | Subaerial \Sub`a*e"ri*al\, a.
Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.),
taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to
subaqueous.
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aerial ladder
(wn) | aerial ladder
n 1: mechanically extendible ladder; used on a fire truck |
aerial ladder truck
(wn) | aerial ladder truck
n 1: a fire engine carrying ladders [syn: ladder truck,
aerial ladder truck] |
aerial torpedo
(wn) | aerial torpedo
n 1: a torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane |
aerial tramway
(wn) | aerial tramway
n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in
carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of
towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, {cable
tramway}, ropeway] |
aerialist
(wn) | aerialist
n 1: an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or
trapeze) |
aerially
(wn) | aerially
adv 1: by means of aircraft; "the survey was carried out
aerially" |
dish aerial
(wn) | dish aerial
n 1: directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for
microwave or radio frequency radiation [syn: dish, {dish
aerial}, dish antenna, saucer] |
order sphaeriales
(wn) | order Sphaeriales
n 1: large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark
hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent
classifications often divided among several orders [syn:
Sphaeriales, order Sphaeriales] |
radio aerial
(wn) | radio aerial
n 1: omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio
receiver by means of which radio signals are received [syn:
radio antenna, radio aerial] |
sphaeriales
(wn) | Sphaeriales
n 1: large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark
hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent
classifications often divided among several orders [syn:
Sphaeriales, order Sphaeriales] |
transmitting aerial
(wn) | transmitting aerial
n 1: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or
television signals [syn: antenna, aerial, {transmitting
aerial}] |
yagi aerial
(wn) | Yagi aerial
n 1: a sharply directional antenna [syn: yagi, Yagi aerial] |
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