Pneumatic vs Aerial - What's the difference?
pneumatic | aerial |
Of, relating to, or resembling air or other gases
Of or relating to pneumatics
Powered by, or filled with compressed air
(zoology) Having cavities filled with air
Spiritual; of or relating to the pneuma
(of a woman) well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy (especially during sex)
(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).
Living or taking place in the air.
* 1782 , (Joseph Priestley), Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit , I:
Positioned high up; elevated.
Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
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.
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, title= 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)
(photography) aerial photography
* 2010 , Jean Hartley, Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers
As adjectives the difference between pneumatic and aerial
is that pneumatic is neumatic while aerial is living or taking place in the air.As nouns the difference between pneumatic and aerial
is that pneumatic is tire (of an automobile) while aerial is a rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.pneumatic
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Alternative forms
* pneumatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- a pneumatic instrument or engine
- pneumatic cells or bones
- "Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.'' - Aldous Huxley - ''Brave New World (chapter 6)
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(wikipedia aerial)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 [...].
- 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.
Ed Pilkington
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(en noun)- 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.
- 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.