Antenna

Quick meaning: Antenna is a noun meaning An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal. [from 17th c.].

Meaning

An appendage used for sensing on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal. [from 17th c.].

More Meanings

1. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
2. (figurative) The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
3. (biochemistry) A fragment of an oligosaccharide
4. (nautical) The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

Example Sentences

Obama is astute. He approaches things with the help of a sensitive antenna.

The basis of these relationships lies in the olfactory chemoreceptors of insect antennas.

Most nurses believe they are born with an antenna of sorts, which is able to guide them through clinical practice and help them determine what is right and what is not.

The overall shape of most insect antennae is elongate and cylindrical, although elaborations into plumose, lamellate, or pectinate forms have arisen many times in different insect lineages.

Word Forms

• antennae
• antennas

Synonyms for antenna

Depending on context, synonyms include feeler, aerial, clairvoyance, acumen, perspicacity, yard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aerial, feeler, ant, branch, probe, air.

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