(a.) 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, aerial regions or currents.
(a.) Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.
(a.) Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.
(a.) Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.
(a.) Light as air; ethereal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the area.
(3) His comments come the day after David Cameron revealed that an unprecedented aerial strike in Syria had killed two Britons fighting alongside Islamic State (Isis).
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the stricken Dharahara tower in Kathmandu.
(5) I must say that for the time being we are still missing some boats and aerial means.
(6) The report reveals a pattern of frequent Israeli attacks using large aerial bombs to level civilian homes, sometimes killing entire families,” Amnesty said.
(7) cpd-3 showed short aerial hyphae with dense formation of conidia.
(8) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
(9) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(10) Ethanolic extracts of the aerial parts of Artemisia abyssinica and A. inculta were subjected to acute toxicity observations in mice for 24 h and chronic toxicity evaluation for 3 months.
(11) It arrived at this number through a 2004-06 survey of tree canopy cover, carried out using aerial photography.
(12) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cows stranded on ‘island’ after New Zealand earthquake – aerial video Key said the quake was the most significant he could remember feeling in Wellington and that his team was clearing up damage in his own offices.
(14) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.
(15) Just as the internet has revolutionised the transport of online data, the company says a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – the "matternet" – could do the same for supplies.
(16) The primary health-care teams in a remote area of Queensland were linked with their base hospital, regional hospitals, a teaching hospital and an aerial retrieval team by means of AUSSAT 1.
(17) A close correlation was observed between the seasonal occurence of P. falciparum cases in 1973 and vector densities, and between vector densities and aerial application of agricultural insecticides.
(18) On Saturday the aerial advertising company Air Ads posted a message on Twitter which said: “Busy afternoon, putting together a banner for St James Park tomorrow afternoon!” That was accompanied by a picture of a banner being prepared, with red letters across it spelling out “AUF WIEDERSEHEN PREM”.
(19) It is pointed out that ground and aerial spraying techniques produce much higher daily mortalities than this, but they may often not be sustained for sufficiently long to achieve eradication.
(20) Superior situational awareness, an extraordinary awareness of the total flight environment and aerial combat situation, is a significant contributor to success in aerial engagement.
Crampon
Definition:
(n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Example Sentences:
(1) To get even closer you’ll need an ice axe, crampons and mountaineering experience.
(2) The one or two exceptions were climbers wearing crampons, which stick to ice like flypaper.
(3) "Just above the ice falls at crampon point you can see cans from 10, 20, 30 years ago or even older," Tshering says.
(4) They put on their crampons and other equipment at the base, then Rob started climbing.
(5) Earlier this year, crews from the pyramid, as it is usually known, strapped on crampons and installed a weather station on the south col of Everest at about 8,000m.
(6) There are people here who have never worn crampons or a harness and think you can just spend thousands of dollars and that's it, but Bonita was not one of these people."
(7) All these things, which amount to a mountain's commercialisation, would have been inconceivable to Tenzing Norgay – in 2003, 17 years after his death, his son said he would been shocked to find adventurers setting out on the climb "who have no idea how to put on crampons".
(8) The New York Times has some ideas about what to wear: We suggest muckboots, headlamp and windbreaker in the morning, crampons and faux-wolverine-lined anorak for evening.
(9) Climbers had reported that they barely needed crampons for the climb, there was so much bare rock, Tenzing said.
(10) Whereas once Everest only attracted the world’s best and most experienced mountaineers, recent years have seen aspiring summiteers who are using basic equipment such as an ice axe and crampons for the first time.