aerialist

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.

   “Of the two ways of making love, adultery must seem the safer, as the aerialist engaged in it swings to an eventual stop, or else lands in marriage itself which is strung out protectively under the highwire. Whereas a man failing in marriage has nothing to break the tumble.”

2. isim A specialist in aerials, a freestyle skiing discipline.

   “Abramenko, a top aerialist in freestyle skiing, a five-time Olympian and the country’s flag-bearer for the opening ceremony, garnered more attention after the event, when a photograph of his hug with a Russian rival was widely circulated.”

3. isim One who operates a flying machine; a balloonist or aviator.

   “The Frenchman, Paulhan, made several spectacular flights, but it is noticeable that while the American aerialists are less spectacular they are doing more to further the art of flying.”

4. isim A person whose knowledge of agriculture is purely academic and not derived from experience.

   “1825, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Volume 2, p. 1133, Book farmers, the aerialists of Marshal, are those who know agriculture only by reading about it.”