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Aerial vs Ariel - What's the difference?

aerial | ariel |

As nouns the difference between aerial and ariel

is that aerial is a rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc while ariel is misspelling of lang=en.

As an adjective aerial

is living or taking place in the air.

As a proper noun Ariel is

a name for the city of Jerusalem.

aerial

English

(wikipedia aerial)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Living or taking place in the air.
  • * 1782 , (Joseph Priestley), Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit , I:
  • A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial , or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].
  • Positioned high up; elevated.
  • Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
  • * 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
  • the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.
  • Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
  • Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
  • A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
  • * 2002 , Joseph A. Kotarba, John M. Johnson, Postmodern Existential Sociology (page 78)
  • In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.
  • (photography) aerial photography
  • * 2010 , Jean Hartley, Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers
  • Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property.

    Usage notes

    Some make a distinction between an (antenna) and an (term), with the former used to indicate a rigid structure, and the latter consisting of a wire strung in the air. For those who do not make a distinction, (antenna) is more commonly used in the United States and (term) is more commonly used in the United Kingdom.

    Synonyms

    * (device for receiving or transmitting) antenna

    Derived terms

    * aerial cableway * aerial camera * aerial ladder * aerial photograph * aerial photography * aerial ping pong * aerial railway * aerial ropeway * aerial runway * aerial survey * aerial surveying

    Anagrams

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    ariel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Arielle (for female name only)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical) A name for the city of Jerusalem.
  • * :
  • Woe to Ariel', to ' Ariel , the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
  • , also ascribed to spirits and angels in English literature.
  • * :
  • Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel , for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
  • * :Scene 2:
  • All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
  • * 1667 :
  • Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy / The Atheist crew, but with redoubl’d blow / Ariel and Arioc, and the violence / Of Ramiel scorcht and blasted overthrew.
  • * 1714 :
  • Of these am I, who thy Protection claim, / A watchful Sprite, and Ariel is my Name.
  • * 1979 , With Child , Crowell, ISBN 0690018355, page 121:
  • You don't look like a Daniel (your pre-chosen name). There's something fierce and tawny about you. You're the Lion! You're Ariel : God's Lion. You'll be my father Leon's namesake — and for your father, you'll have a Hebrew name.
    I dub thee Ariel , faery spirit of my tempest. You'll be my Jerusalem...
  • , used mainly since the 1980s.
  • * 1992 Kristina Logan, The Right Man for Loving , Thorndike Press, ISBN 1560545380, page 190:
  • "I'm going to name her Ariel ," Laura said, ignoring them completely as she stared down at the baby. "The boys like the name because it's the same as the girl in the Little Mermaid movie. And I like it, because it's pretty."
  • (astronomy) Name of the twelfth and brightest moon of the planet Uranus.
  • Derived terms

    * Arielian ----