Word Finder - airy

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Consisting of air.

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an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies

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Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.

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an airy flight

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Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.

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an airy situation

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Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.

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Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.

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airy music

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Not based on reality; having no solid foundation

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• empty
• trifling
• visionary

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Light-hearted; vivacious

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• flippant
• sprightly
• superficial

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Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

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Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.

It was open and airy, bright and cheerful.

Airy hallways led through the hacienda style structure on either side of her.

Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.

They climbed a set of wide, sweeping stone stairs that led up to the building, past towering columns, and into an airy chamber without a ceiling.

She searched for half an hour before spotting her sister sitting in one of the airy rooms off the hallway near the buffet.

This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments.

This value, although considerably in excess of that previously found by different methods, was held by Airy, from the care and completeness with which the observations were carried out and discussed, to be "entitled to compete with the others on, at least, equal terms."

The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.

At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music.

They stood in front of an airy, light tent resembling a silk sheet suspended in midair over a table.

At the Cambridge observatory Airy soon gave evidence of his remarkable power of organization.

She reached forward for a croissant and bit into it, almost groaning at the buttery, flaky, airy bread.

The fire provided the only light in the large, airy chamber, its glow and shadows flickering across the room.

She hadn't thought it so cramped, but it was, compared to Xander's spacious, airy condo.

Impressed already with the airy condo, she ascended the stairs to the second floor.

After completing these reductions, Airy made inquiries, before engaging in any theoretical investigation in connexion with them, whether any other mathematician was pursuing the subject, and learning that Hansen had taken it in hand under the patronage of the king of Denmark, but that, owing to the death of the king and the consequent lack of funds, there was danger of his being compelled to abandon it, he applied to the admiralty on Hansen's behalf for the necessary sum.

It thrives best on a dry, deep, sandy loam, on airy sheltered sites at no great elevation above the sea.

The so-called mysticism of the Persian Sufis is less intense and practical, more airy and literary in character.

No doubt these airy paradoxes were not always seriously taken; but it is significant that a common Roman proverb identified "philosophizing" (philosophatur) with thinking out some dirty trick.

Later investigations by Fraunhofer, Airy and others have greatly widened the field, and under the head of " diffraction " are now usually treated all the effects dependent upon the limitation of a beam of light, as well as those which arise from irregularities of any kind at surfaces through which it is transmitted, or at which it is reflected.

The cells of the Inquisition were, as a rule, large, airy, clean and with good windows admitting the sun.

In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.

The two sunroofs also make the car feel really airy.

See Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn, edited by Gordon Goodwin (1903); Waldron's edition of John Downes's Roscius Anglicanus (1789); Osmund Airy, Charles II.

When lifted they should be laid thinly in a well shaded, airy spot to, dry.

Airy's and Flinders's correctors form the basis of all compass correctors to this day.

It has been employed by Damoiseau, Hansen and Airy.

Pass the roof on excellent holds but in a very airy position.

Airy's writings during this time are divided between mathematical FIG.

Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.

The investigation that brought about this result was probably the most laborious that had been made up to Airy's time in planetary theory, and represented the first specific improvement in the solar tables effected in England since the establishment of the theory of gravitation.

One of the most remarkable of Airy's researches was his determination of the mean density of the earth.

Her bright and airy living room decor is the personification of spring.

Primary, secondary and spurious bows were formed, and their radii measured; a comparison of these observations exhibited agreement with Airy's analytical values.

Airy, the astronomer, corrected his own astigmatism by means of a cylindrical lens.

It is a large town with wide and airy streets, and is adorned with pagodas, gateways and other buildings of considerable pretension.

Sun and wind are freely admitted, and the whole effect is one of the most airy lightness and grace.

This quarter has wide airy streets and lofty houses, and though perhaps the houses were let at prices which were beyond the purses of the lowest class, the result of their erection was to cause a number of the poorer houses in the old town to be vacated, thus giving an opportunity to the lowest class to be at any rate better housed than they were before.

Superimposed sections of rightand left-handed quartz, as may sometimes be present in sections of twinned crystals, exhibit Airy's spirals in the polariscope.

To keep the beam truly in its place, which is very necessary, as all the bearings are flat,the re From Airy, " On Weighing Machines," Institution of Civil Engineers, 1892.

On the 21st of October 1845 he left at Greenwich Observatory, for the information of Sir George Airy, the astronomer-royal, a similar document, still preserved among the archives.

A fortnight afterwards Airy wrote asking for information about a point in the solution.

Meanwhile Airy had in July suggested to Challis that the planet should be sought for with the Cambridge equatorial.

Airy then at length published an account of the circumstances, and Adams's memoir was printed as an appendix to the Nautical Almanac. A keen controversy arose in France and England as to the merits of the two astronomers.

Its mathematical prediction was not only an unsurpassed intellectual feat; it showed also that Newton's law of gravitation, which Airy had almost called in question, prevailed even to the utmost bounds of the solar system.

In 1826 and 1828, Whewell was engaged with Airy in conducting experiments in Dolcoath mine, Cornwall, in order to determine the density of the earth.

He was famous for his versatility, and besides being a distinguished lawyer, jurist and political leader, was "a mathematician, a chemist, a physicist, a mechanician, an inventor, a musician and a composer of music, a man of literary knowledge and practice, a writer of airy and dainty songs, a clever artist with pencil and brush and a humorist of unmistakeable power" (Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution).

Sir George Airy detected in 1831 an inequality, periodic in 240 years, between Venus and the earth.

Those relating to the moon and planets, corrected by Sir George Airy, 1840-1846, form part of the standard materials for discussing theories of movement in the solar system.

This value was found by himself and Airy to represent fairly well several ancient eclipses of the sun, notably the supposed one of Thales.