aerial
Living or taking place in the air.
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Born ~1830 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
605 drones, 12 guided aerial bombs, and a HIMARS rocket were shot down by air defense systems in a single day - Russia's Ministry of Defense.
Gee, Lake Zurich is just too pretty for my heart 😍🇨🇭💙 #switzerland #aerial #castle
There are 3 anthurium stem I've been nursing for the past months, not sure how long. No sign they want to live so I threw them to garden. They live. There's bunch of aerial roots and shoot. Fuck you I guess
Zakarya Elmimouni, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini Label-Efficient School Detection from Aerial Imagery via Weakly Supervised Pretraining and Fine-Tuning https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03968
Work stressing me out so much that I'm taking a beginner pole dance class tn with one of my aerial friends
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Living or taking place in the air.
The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.
“"Aerial Spin" https://sutosufo.com/l/218-kickflip-kings [Kickflip Kings :: Flip, slide, show-off.] Concrete ramps are conquered one trick at a time, each one a chance to showcase speed, skill, and raw youthful energy. 🛹”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Victor L. Knoop, Serge P. Hoogendoorn: On Traffic Interactions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Traffic Flow Applied to Three Dimensional Space https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.02573 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.02573”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A strike involving FP-5 “Flamingo”-type cruise missiles targeted the JSC “VNIIR-Progress” plant, — Dnipro OSINT reports. The company produces anti-jamming navigation modules used in Russian unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as in cruise and ballistic missiles.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Positioned high up; elevated.
The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.
“605 drones, 12 guided aerial bombs, and a HIMARS rocket were shot down by air defense systems in a single day - Russia's Ministry of Defense.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Gee, Lake Zurich is just too pretty for my heart 😍🇨🇭💙 #switzerland #aerial #castle”
— Bluesky· May 2026“There are 3 anthurium stem I've been nursing for the past months, not sure how long. No sign they want to live so I threw them to garden. They live. There's bunch of aerial roots and shoot. Fuck you I guess”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Zakarya Elmimouni, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini Label-Efficient School Detection from Aerial Imagery via Weakly Supervised Pretraining and Fine-Tuning https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03968”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Work stressing me out so much that I'm taking a beginner pole dance class tn with one of my aerial friends”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(literary, or, archaic) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
Aerial means: Made up of air or gas; gaseous.. The word is mostly archaic or historical; you will only encounter it in old texts, period drama, or school history rather than current teen conversation. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
aerial means: Made up of air or gas; gaseous.. Register: archaic, historical. Almost never used today; you will find it only in older texts, dictionaries of dialect, or historical writing. Avoid in active vocabulary. Common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; always check the context before producing it yourself.
“🔴 Drone Attack | 7/10 🇺🇦 UAVs over Krasnokutsk, Kharkiv region Unmanned aerial vehicles have been detected heading towards Krasnokutsk in the Kharkiv region https://newsgroup.site/bpla-na-krasnokutsk-kharkivshchyna/ #Breaking #OSINT #Ukraine”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Russians drop three aerial bombs on Kramatorsk, three killed, five injured – administration #Ukraine”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Following aerial bombardments that buried Tehran’s enrichment facilities #malaysiagazette”
— Bluesky· May 2026““Western defense establishments, however, perhaps facing industry pressure or falling prey to narratives about drone dominance, appear to be doubling down on propeller-based unmanned aerial systems for both offensive and counter-drone operations…””
— Bluesky· May 2026“🎁 "U.S. Military Strikes Boat in Caribbean, Killing 2" The aerial strike raised the death toll to at least 187 in the U.S. campaign against boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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