What is "aerial"

aerial \aerial\ n.

1. (Football) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer.

   Syn: forward pass

2. a metallic wire, rod, or combination of rods connected to an electronic device, designed to send or receive radio or television signals.

   Syn: antenna

aerial \aerial\, Aerial \A*["e]"ri*al\, a. [L. a["e]rius. See Air.]

1. 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, a["e]rial regions or currents; the a["e]rial maneuvers of a fighter plane. ``A["e]rial spirits.''
   --Milton. ``A["e]rial voyages.''
   --Darwin.

2. Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

3. Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, a["e]rial spires.

4. Growing, forming, living, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, a["e]rial rootlets, a["e]rial plants; the aerial roots of a philodendron.
   --Gray.

5. Light as air; ethereal.

6. operating or operated overhead especially on elevated cables. aerial conveyers for transporting raw materials

7. operating or moving in the air. an aerial cable car; aerial combat

   Aerial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.]
   --Ure.

   Aerial perspective. See Perspective.

c.1600, from Latin aerius "airy, aerial, lofty, high" (from Greek aerios "of the air, pertaining to air," from aer "air;" see air (n.1)) + adjectival suffix -al (1).

1902 (short for aerial antenna, etc.); see aerial (adj.).

a. 1 Living or taking place in the air. (from 16th c.) 2 (context now literary or historical English) Made up of air or gas; gaseous. (from 16th c.) 3 Positioned high up; elevated. (from 16th c.) 4 ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary. (from 16th c.) 5 Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric. (from 17th c.) 6 Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft. (from 17th c.) n. 1 (context chiefly UK English) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc. 2 A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground. 3 (context photography English) aerial photography

1. adj. 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]

1. n. 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]

An aerial (also acrobatic or air step) is a dance move in Lindy Hop where one's feet leave the floor. The term has come to mean a wide range of special and unusual dance moves, including dips, slides, and tricks.

The first Lindy Hop aerial was performed by Frankie Manning in 1935. Frankie Manning and George "Shorty" Snowden competed in weekly dance contests at the Savoy Ballroom. Shorty George and Big Bea had a move, where they stood back-to-back; they locked arms; Big Bea bent over, picking Shorty George up on her back; and then she carried him off the floor, while he kicked his feet. Frankie Manning wanted to outdo Shorty George, so he convinced his partner Freda Washington, to flip over his back. Called the 'over the back', this flip is considered the first Lindy aerial.

Aerials quickly caught on in Lindy Hop. In 1935, the troupe Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (aka the Harlem Congeroos) formed and performed at private parties in New York. From 1936 to 1941, they toured the world and performed in movies and some after 1945, showing Lindy Hop and aerials to the world.

Aerials had been performed in other dances before 1935. For example, the Nicholas Brothers used leaps and flips in their tap dance routines in the early 1930s at the Cotton Club. Flash dancers, who toured with big bands in the United States in the early twentieth century, performed acrobatic dances, often matched with tap dancers and contortionists in traveling shows.

Aerial may refer to:

Aerial is the eighth studio album by the English singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush, released in 2005, twelve years after her 1993 album The Red Shoes. It is her only double album.

Aerial was a Canadian pop and rock band from Toronto, Ontario during the 1970s.

Aerial are a power-pop band who formed in the late 1990s in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Aerials (or more commonly airs) are a type of skateboarding trick usually performed on half-pipes, pools or quarter pipes where there is a vertical wall with a transition (curved surface linking wall and ground) available. Aerials usually combine rotation with different grabs. Most of the different types of grabs were originally aerial tricks that were performed in ditches, empty pools, and vert ramps before flatground aerials became common. Aerials can be executed by ollieing just as the front wheels reach the lip of a ramp, or can be executed simply by lifting the front wheels over the coping (or lip). The former is preferable on shallower ramps where the skateboarder has less speed to lift them above the ramp.

Aerial is an influential poetry magazine edited by Rod Smith and published by Aerial/Edge based in Washington, D.C.. Along with the magazine, Aerial/Edge publishes Edge Books. The first issue of Aerial appeared in 1984. Edge Books began with its first publication in 1989.

Beginning with Issue 6/7 (John Cage), Aerial has published a series of issues devoted to the work of individual poets within the avant-garde tradition, such as Bruce Andrews, Barrett Watten, and Lyn Hejinian.

"Aerial is focused primarily on the avant garde and the experimental, broadly defined", according to the magazine's Web site. This focus could be defined as a poetry and poetics that grew out of a counter-poetic tradition that specifically took root in 20th-century North America. Today, some of the more recognizable of these avante garde and experimental groups would now include Black Mountain poets, the New York School, Language poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance. Broadly defined, the various groups and "schools" found antecedents in the diverse theories and practice of John Cage and Gertrude Stein, George Oppen and William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, or Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa to name a few.

So far, contributors to Aerial over its run of publication have included Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Elaine Equi. Charles Bernstein and Tina Darragh to give one sampling. Peter Seaton, Jerry Estrin, Leslie Scalapino, Rae Armantrout and Ron Silliman are another sampling of the eclectic mix of artists who have made an appearance in Aerial over its nearly 30-year run. There have been dozens more. Some of the magazine's poems have crossed over into mainstream acceptance, including some work featured in The Best American Poetry series.

Aerial is a post/indie-rock band from Sandviken, Sweden. They’ve released four full length albums so far: “Black Rain From The Bombing” in 2006, “The Sentinel” in 2007, “The Legion of Dynamic Dischord” in 2008 and "Put it this way in headlines" in 2009. They have toured in Europe on several times, and they have played with acts such as; Bell Orchestre, Deerhunter, Arab Strap and Mono. Aerial was signed to Nomethod Records in 2006, and has since been released outside of Sweden by labels; Tangled Up!, Thomason Sounds and will be released in late 2009 by Flake Records. The lead singer and guitarist, Sebastian Arnström, is also a member of the semi-electronic indie act Simian Ghost.