aerial adj
1: in or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"
2: growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"
3: 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, airy, aery, ethereal] (noun)
1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn: [[forward pass]]]
2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals [syn: antenna, transmitting aerial]