Air

Word AIR
Character 3
Hyphenation air
Pronunciations /ˈɛə/

Definitions and meanings of "Air"

What do we mean by air?

A colorless, odorless, tasteless, gaseous mixture, mainly nitrogen (approximately 78 percent) and oxygen (approximately 21 percent) with lesser amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, neon, helium, and other gases. noun

This mixture with varying amounts of moisture and particulate matter, enveloping the earth; the atmosphere. noun

The sky; the firmament. noun

A giant void; nothingness. noun

An atmospheric movement; a breeze or wind. noun

A height achieved by a jump or as part of an airborne maneuver, as in skateboarding or snowboarding. noun

Aircraft. noun

Public utterance; vent. noun

The medium of broadcast radio or television. noun

A manner of behaving that conveys an impression. noun

A distinctive quality or appearance; an aura. noun

The general environment or condition, as in attitudes and ideas. noun

Affected behavior; affectation: synonym: affectation. noun

A melody or tune, especially in the soprano or tenor range. noun

A solo with or without accompaniment. noun

The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:

(usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but 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.

(usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.

A song, especially a solo; an aria.

Nothing; absence of anything.

An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.

Any specific gas.

(motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.

A television or radio signal.

Publicity.

When Some one gets blanked or ignored by somebody. Urban Dictionary

Verb: To be dismissed, blanked or ignored in an aloof or haughty manner. Urban Dictionary

What you give to someone who has annoyed you. giving air is the same as 'blanking' someone Urban Dictionary

(noun) abreviation of 'length in the ~' air is used by extreme sports enthusiasts (boarders, skaters, bmxers, traceurs) to refer to the time spent in the air between a jump's takeoff and landing; or the distance or height od such a jump. Urban Dictionary

If you have to ask what air is, you're probably on Tumblr. Urban Dictionary

Air has several definitions 1. Total blank, not even a glance or a sign of recognition. 2. Empty threats made by wastemen or fake rudeboys acting hard. 3. To get a good jump in basketball so one can perform a number of tricks like alleyoop or dunking. Urban Dictionary

Slang for air conditioning Urban Dictionary

O(squared) .. 22%oxygen 78%nitrogen.. simi-transparent gas found in the lower atmosphere. You breath it. Urban Dictionary

Your fucking breathe it. do you not know what air is? do you know that you BREATHE IT?!?! Urban Dictionary

Cheap ass shoes from pay-less Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Air

The word "air" in example sentences

I have computed it, using 1.406 for the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume, 491. 13° F. as the temperature of melting ice above the zero of the _air_ thermometer, 26,214 feet for the height of a homogeneous atmosphere, and 0.2375 for the specific heat of air, and I find, by means of these constants, 778. ❋ Various (N/A)

After about the year 1790, it was necessary to think of combustions in the air as combinations of a particular gas, or _air_, with the burning substances, or some portions of them. ❋ M. M. Pattison Muir (N/A)

This cylinder gives its full volume of air, and apparently a little more at times, because the air is admitted by a concentrated inlet in which free _air is always moving in one direction_. ❋ Various (N/A)

"To visitation of the impassive air," is a sonorous verse; but it is not Dante's verse, unless _all detached_ means _on every side is open to visitation_, and _impassive air_ means ❋ Various (N/A)

Of the 1588 rooms 441 were dark, with no ventilation to the outer air except through other rooms; 635 rooms gave upon twilight “air shafts. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The quantity of air taken in with a single inspiration in quiet breathing (_tidal air_) is about 20-30 cubic inches. ❋ Wesley Mills (1881)

When trustees and patrons realize that pure air is absolutely essential to health, and that their children are being slowly poisoned by the foul air of school rooms, then they will construct our halls of learning with a due regard for the laws of hygiene, and students will not droop under their tasks on account of the absence of Nature's most bountiful gift, _pure air_. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

It appears that they had long contemplated, with philosophical interest, the floating and ascent of clouds in the air, and when they heard of or read Cavendish's theories in regard to _different kinds of air_, it at once struck them that by enclosing some gas lighter than the atmosphere in a bag, a weight might be raised from the earth into the air. ❋ Unknown (1859)

'Ef you want to know,' sez he, 'open your winder of a mornin' et ary season, and you'll larn thet the best of perfooms is jest fresh air, _fresh air_, 'sez he, emphysizin', 'athout no mixtur. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

This was further proved by making the interval in air 0.8 of an inch whilst muriatic acid gas was in the vessel _a_; for on charging the small balls _s_ and S positively, _all_ the discharge took place through the _air_; but on charging them negatively, _all_ the discharge took place through the ❋ Michael Faraday (1829)

Oar northerly winds in the beginning of the winter may arise from the weight of the cold northern air overcoming the warmer southern air, which, as the heat lessens, is less loaded with vapours, and therefore more easily gives way to the cold northern and denser air* Hence the frequency of north-west winds at that season* ❋ Joseph Taylor, John Claridge (1812)

*crinkle* *krakle* *shuffle* *catnip mowsie flies thru air mysteriusly from teh top ob teh blankie tu teh bottom* *crinklecrinklecrinkle* *smels ob rowst chikkin adn tewna juice fill teh air* ❋ Unknown (2008)

_Air_ into the bigger _hole_ of the _Vessel_, and into the smaller _hole_ of the _Pipe_, we shall clearly find, that there is a greater pressure of the air upon the water in the _Vessel_ or greater _pipe_, then there is upon that in the lesser _pipe_: For since the pressure of the _air_ every way is found to be equal, that is, as much as is able to press up and sustain a _Cylinder_ of _Quicksilver_ of two foot and a half high, or thereabouts; And since of this pressure so many more degrees are required to force the _Air_ into a smaller then into a greater _hole_ that is full of a more congruous fluid. ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

To accomplish this it is evident that the steam must have an elastic force greater than the pressure of the air, _or it could not expand and drive out the waste steam on the other side of the piston, in opposition to the pressure of the air_. " ❋ James W. Steele (N/A)

"Ef you want to know," sez he, "open your winder of a mornin 'et ary season, and you' ll larn thet the best of perfooms is jest fresh air, _fresh air_," sez he, emphysizin ', "athout no mixtur. ❋ Various (N/A)

When a kettle containing liquid air is placed on ice it "boils" because the ice is intensely hot _when compared with the very low temperature of the liquid air_.] ❋ J. Arthur Thomson (1897)

"It is not true, and it seems to me even absurd to believe that pure air, which has been justly called _vital air_, and which chemists now call _oxygen gas_, can be the radical of saline matters -- namely, can be the principle of acidity, of causticity, or any salinity whatever. ❋ Unknown (1872)

And air is not an option, because, since the oxygen in air is flammable, air compressed over 1000 psi cannot be stored. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Call me a nit-picker but you wrote: “And air is not an option, because, since the oxygen in air is flammable, air compressed over 1,000 psi cannot be stored.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only thing known to make two hydrophobic surfaces adhere in air is Van der Waal's force, so the old question of capillary action has been disproved. ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)

He gets air[That girl] gave him [pure] air [rudeboy] ❋ Critikal (2004)

[The next] time I saw [Britney], she totally [aired] me man. ❋ Veghead (2005)

bob: "[safe g]" [bill]: "___" everyone else: dont have that, he's [giving] u air!! ❋ The Daz (2005)

'that was [massive] air' 'checkout his air, that [was like] [ten seconds] or something' ❋ Flamsmark (2005)

You: WHAT IS [AIR] [Stranger]: [Tumblr]?! ❋ Great-perhaps (2010)

1. - Boi I must be talkin to air Try move dis chick last nite, only received air lyk. 2. Wasteman"U not what blud im gona get [dat boi] and run him tru wit my shank" Real man "Blud u aint gona do sh*t, u [chattin] air" 3. You see that dunk he got [mad air] fam. ❋ S00fman (2005)

Hey, it's hot out. Let's [put on] [the air]. ❋ Bmanlio (2006)

[Alien]: "[Gah]!, they have [Air], this planet is totally uninhabitable" ❋ Mad At The World (2003)

oh look timmy isn’t breathing. guess he didn’t have enough air. never liked his ass. [the basic] white girl [tripped] over air in [the scary] movie. dumb ass. ❋ Getyourfreesugardaddy.com (2019)

[that bitch] has [sume] ugly [airs]. ❋ Pike Rules (2004)

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