(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.
Terrestrial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals.
(a.) Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary; mundane.
(a.) Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
(a.) Adapted for the observation of objects on land and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from an astronomical telescope.
(n.) An inhabitant of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(2) An explanation of this in terms of terrestrial snail (intermediate host) populations and a suggestion for the possible use of these data in developing a predictive model for forecasting lungworm levels for use in in bighorn sheep management are given.
(3) This suggests that the chronotropic effect of PTH is ubiquitous among the terrestrial vertebrates.
(4) Lumbricus terrestris L. The composition and purity of the fractions have been assessed using SDS-protein electrophoresis, Western immunoblots, and electron microscopy.
(5) The model should be generally applicable to other terrestrial vertebrates.
(6) The circadian locomotor rhythm of the terrestrial slug, Limax maximus, was measured with activity wheels during exposure to both humid and drying conditions.
(7) In terrestrial insects such as locusts and cockroaches ventilatory movements are governed by a dominant oscillator in the metathoracic or anterior abdominal ganglion.
(8) The lux genes required for expression of luminescence have been cloned from a terrestrial bacterium, Xenorhabdus luminescens, and the nucleotide sequences of the luxA and luxB genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of luciferase determined.
(9) According to the difference in pesticide content in fish tissues in spring and autumn we can localize the source of COP contamination of water fauna and terrestrial ecosystems of different protected areas possessing water bodies.
(10) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(11) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for chain c of hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has been determined.
(12) Strains antigenically related to the same serotypes were frequently isolated from both terrestrial ecosystems and adjacent freshwater.
(13) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(14) It is the first known example of electroreception in a terrestrial animal.
(15) The role being discussed would put him in charge of the Fox Networks Group, which includes the Fox terrestrial TV network as well as cable channels such as FX and National Geographic, says a report in the Financial Times.
(16) Comparison of these results with published findings indicates that the parcellation of the peristriate cortex into a variety of different areas, the pattern formed by these areas around area 17, and their reciprocal connections with area 17 follow a common plan in all hitherto studied terrestrial Old World and New World rodents.
(17) Of 23 fermentable compounds tested, the terrestrial strains attacked only glucose and mannose.
(18) The Siluro-Devonian "explosive" colonization of land, and indeed the very evolution of plants, was possible only through such mutualistic partnerships-partnerships that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.
(19) It is now recognized that plasmids are widely distributed in bacterial populations in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
(20) Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments.