(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.
Mast
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
(n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
(n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
(v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(2) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
(3) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(4) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(5) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(6) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
(7) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(8) The findings suggest that mast cell prostaglandins are an important factor in the pathogenesis of pruritus and that local vascular responses may trigger mast cell degranulation.
(9) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(10) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(13) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(14) Their presence was established both by staining for mast cells at light microscopic level and by electron microscopy.
(15) Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with either Staurosporine or an analog K-252a, lead to a dose-related inhibition of histamine release when stimulated with Anti-IgE (IC50: Staurosporine = 110 nM; K-252a = 100 nM).
(16) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
(17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
(18) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
(19) Furthermore, using rat mast cells, the binding assay in conjunction with histamine releasing assay may be utilized to predict the in vivo histamine releasing potential of new LHRH peptides which are of clinical importance.
(20) Six dogs had increased numbers of mast cells in peripheral blood or buffy coat smears.