air
The English word “air” has 24 meanings listed here.
- The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
- One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- A local environment or atmosphere, in the context of its effects on behavior, health, weather, etc.
- The substance of the atmosphere on a planet other than Earth.
- The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near-vacuum of outer space.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- A feeling or sense.
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- A melody or song, especially a solo; an aria.
- Nothing; absence of anything.
- An air conditioning system.
- Any specific gas.
- The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- Publicity.
- To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.
- To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion).
- To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- To be broadcast.
- To ignore (a person).
- Pronunciation spelling of are.
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