Allan Stein
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Shakespeare himself may have coined this word, in Othello, and later he gave the name Ariel to the famous air-spirit character in The Tempest. An aerialist is an acrobat who performs high above the audience. In painting, aerial perspective is the way an artist creates the illusion that a mountain or city is far away (something that early painters only slowly learned how to do), usually by making it slightly misty and bluish gray—as if seen through miles of air. An aerial work platform, or "cherry picker", supports a worker at a high elevation on the end of a crane. And aerial itself can be used as a noun, meaning a TV antenna, a forward pass in football, or a high-flying stunt performed by a skateboarder or snowboarder.
Examples of aerial in a Sentence
Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
Authorities at the Christmas Island National Park had already attempted aerial baiting on multiple occasions, where a helicopter was used to bait the ant colonies with a low concentration of the insecticide, Fipronil.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 9 July 2024
Only 36 miles from Salt Lake City, Deer Valley hosted the alpine slalom, freestyle aerials and freestyle moguls events during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Aerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aerial. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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aerial
1 of 2 adjective
aerial
2 of 2 noun
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