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aerial English

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aerial

When something is aerial, it is in the air.

aerial

An aerial is something used to transmit and receive signals.

aerial

(= forward pass) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer existing or living or growing or operating in the air aerial roots of a philodendron aerial particles small aerial creatures such as butterflies aerial warfare aerial photography aerial cable cars (= aeriform, airy, ethereal) 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 (= antenna) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

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Simple sentences

In this next slide we see an aerial shot of the company headquarters.
The communal aerial of our block of flats was struck by lightning.
The aerial on our radio needs fixing.
The town was subjected to an aerial attack.

Movie subtitles

His aerial partner's a minute out.
Second aerial performer.
The wings of flies, sir, represent the aerial power of the psychic faculties.
Some sort of aerial bus driver.
It's still there, and the latest aerial reconnaissance tells us it's still usable.
But you won't be needing aerial taxi drivers for another hundred years.
I have to go to the starboard side to see the Marconi aerial.
The air service believes that it can be sunk by aerial bombardment.
Stringer thinks we're an aerial circus.
Major Huglin calling for aerial protection. Over.
The truck holds a lot of luggage, the spare, and the radio aerial.
Over the past week, from the 19th to the 25th of July, during aerial battles, on airfields.
I'm in Photographic Aerial Reconnaissance interpretation.
An aerial one.
You're a trouper, an aerial star.
We'll revolutionize the aerial bombardment.
All admire the courage and heroism of the aerial postman as he regains his Spitfire.
You got a defense against an aerial holdup?
And in the centre ring, the outstanding aerial daredevil of all time, the debonair king of the air, The Great Sebastian!
Now, their mission, the greatest aerial exploration and mapping program of Antarctica ever undertaken.
The aerial's gone!
I designed this aerial for fringe areas, it should work.
Clayton, you come back here and fix that aerial.
Probably a loose wire hidden around the house somewhere, Acting as an aerial, picking up the sound Of some woman in the village crying.
I don't see any aerial.
Can we get an aerial tonight, Dad?
When we get an aerial, would you like to look at some TV with me?
There's no aerial.
Aerial, press to speak, release to receive.
The aerial must've been screened by the pit.
And that's not to mention the aerial photography.
Large formations of enemy aircraft today attacked targets in southern England, but the enemy's aerial armada came in for heavy punishment.
And don't forget, General Dreedle wants to see a nice, tight bombing pattern on those aerial photographs.
We have aerial photographs if you'd like to see them.

News and current affairs

We see aerial photos of the Aral Sea drying up.
When you look at an aerial photograph of housing developments spreading into prairies or logging operations obliterating rain forests, it's hard to avoid entertaining a frightening possibility: we are parasites.
The study also noted that the majority of deaths resulted from violence, and that a high proportion of the violent deaths were due to US aerial bombing.
The epidemiologists acknowledged the uncertainties of these estimates, but presented enough data to warrant an urgent follow-up investigation and reconsideration by the Bush administration and the US military of aerial bombing of Iraq's urban areas.
The fundamentalists, having lost most of their vehicles and arms to French aerial bombing, fled headlong into the desert.
We have started to bring hope by educating young Afghans, but we have not yet succeeded in bringing them a secure life, free from the danger of bombs and aerial bombardment.
We saw helicopters attempt aerial drops; landing is impossible in most places.
After an apparent lull in aerial bombardments, the planes soon returned, and the Janjaweed resumed their campaign of murder and destruction.
Aerial photographers were called in, and a large budget was set aside.
Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones - or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - doing the killing.
What is more certain is that the presence of armed fighters in a neighborhood provokes aerial attacks that destroy civilian infrastructure and maim and kill those residents who have not fled.
In an extreme scenario, the regime could use chemical weapons, as Saddam Hussein did against the Kurds of Halabja in 1988, or it could launch an intensive aerial bombardment campaign, as Syria's Hafez al-Assad's did in Hama in 1982.
According to the Violations Documentation Center, the leading cause of death among Syrian civilians this year has been the indiscriminate use of aerial weapons - barrel bombs and chlorine gas dropped from helicopters by the Syrian army.
Standard aerial or satellite imaging techniques to measure the quantity of oil spilled do not work well.
We did so by destroying their cities and villages with artillery shells and aerial bombardment, and we abducted and killed civilians, their bodies often bearing evidence of torture.
It is from this side of China's bipolar attitude toward America that its emotional response to the aerial collision near Hainan Island arises.
Aerial photographs had revealed nuclear missile sites under construction in Cuba.
In Kosovo restricting intervention to aerial bombardment made this strategy a total success: NATO forces suffered not a single casualty in combat, but approximately 300 Kosovar, 209 Serb and 3 Chinese civilians were killed.

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