forward_pass, aerial: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer antenna, aerial, transmitting_aerial: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals aerial: 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" aerial: growing in air; "aerial roots of a philodendron" aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, 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"