Air: Definition and part of speech

Air

  1. n. The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
  2. n. The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
  3. n. Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
  4. n. A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
  5. n. Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
  6. n. Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
  7. n. Odoriferous or contaminated air.
  8. n. That which surrounds and influences.
  9. n. Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
  10. n. Intelligence; information.
  11. 1n. 1 The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
  12. 1n. 1 The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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