In The Air

Definition: In The Air

In The Air

Adverb

1. On everybody's mind; "Christmas was in the air".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: In The Air

Eventuality

Adjective: happening; v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question; incidental.

Hope

Castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage; (fallacies of vision); fond hope.

Imagination

Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope).

Impossibility

Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once.

Inutility

Seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen; (too late); hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine; (waste); carry coals to Newcastle; (redundancy); wash a blackamoor white; (impossible).

Prediction

Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,

Crosswords: In The Air

For you, circling 500 feet in the air is imperfect. (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan)

Even in those days, she could always throw her legs in the air higher than any of us and wider. (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

I'd throw my hat up in the air, but you don't want to see my hair today. (Unzipped; writing credit: Alessandro Capone; Rosario Galli)

He deliberately waited until we were in the air to ask me. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It's in the air, eh? (Poirot; writing credit: Clive Exton; Anthony Horowitz)

And your feet flyin{ up in the air ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Now throw your hands up in the air (Everybody(Backstreet's Back); performing artist: BACKSTREET BOYS)

Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

There'll be tenderness in the air (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

They even had a bear in the air! (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL)

Life is a roller coaster. You can either scream every time you hit a bump, or you can throw your hands up in the air and enjoy it. (references; author: unknown)

Up in the Air (1969)

Sentinels In the Air (1956)

War in the Air (1954)

Castle in the Air (1952)

Trouble in the Air (1948)

LOVE IS IN THE AIR (performing artist: JOHN PAUL YOUNG)

IN THE AIR TONIGHT (performing artist: Phil Collins )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Brahmin's Castles in the Air (reference)

• The Friendless Sky: The Great Saga of War in the Air, 1914-18 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Music In The Air : Song & Spirituality (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a sophisticated gas chromatography system. This records concentrations of acrylonitrile in the air at various points throughout the chemical laboratory. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Arctic sunset - there's a chill in the air and the night's are getting longer It's time to head south. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The sounding balloons in the air with recording devices. Plate V, print 23. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Smokey Bear Ranger District, Lincoln N.F., Ruidoso, NM. Smoke from the Cree Fire hangs in the air. Credit: USDA.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Reconstruction class, amputees with their up in the air. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Specialist 3rd Class Nora Scott (left) and Specialist 3rd Class Virginia Chenoweth at work in the air station's control tower, circa spring 1945. Credit: NAVY.

The airship's wreckage in the Humber River at Hull, Yorkshire, England, after it had broken up in the air, exploded and crashed. The tail is at the left. Credit: NAVY.

They who go up in the air in ships. Credit: Library of Congress.

It's in the air : and we don't need a robin or organ grinder to prove it. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Up in the air" over Navy Day] / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Underwood and Underwood..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They still dream of experimental realisation of their social Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing "Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria" -- duodecimo editions of the New Jerusalem -- and to realise all these castles in the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses of the bourgeois. (reference)

If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealths be added to that of the United States with all that such co-operation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There was certainly too much of it in the air.

Any sophisticated knowledgable person, who had knocked about, seen a few things, would probably have remarked on how much the craft looked like a filing cabinet--a large and recently burgled filing cabinet lying on its back with its drawers in the air and flying.

A shot in the air, into the ceiling, no matter where.

He moved a thin shrunken brown hand gently in the air in time to his praise and his thin quick eyelids beat often over his sad eyes.

The uneven wind whisked up and passed, and a bite of frost was in the air.

My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Droplet nuclei are tiny and may remain in the air for prolonged periods, ready to be inhaled. (references)

In rare instances it may be caused by tossing a baby in the air or jogging with a baby in a backpack. (references)

Contact with the virus also occurs when a person inhales tiny particles in the air contaminated with rodent excretions. (references)

Business

A proposal is in the air for the adoption of limiters. (references)

The Chinese view American firms as reliable, with advanced technology in the air pollution control (APC) sector. (references)

In Korea, however, the U.S. companies have a slight edge over Japanese companies in the air filtration technology market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malawi

The police subsequently fired automatic weapons in the air to control the crowd. (references)

Haiti

According to several eyewitnesses, the counter-demonstrators fired weapons in the air. (references)

Economic History

France

The market for dedusters, gas scrubbers and gas purification systems in France offers the greatest opportunities for U.S. companies in the air pollution control industry. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

Soldiers reportedly first fired in the air as demonstrators approached throwing stones and then surrounding the military contingent. (references)

Jamaica

After 5 hours, local police and the JCF Mobile Reserve Unit attempted to disperse the crowd, firing tear gas and live ammunition in the air. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

A response to a violent demonstration must be in clear escalatory stages--first tear gas, then warning shots in the air, then rubber--coated steel bullets. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Travel

Honduras

March and April are particularly hot and dry, with considerable smoke in the air from slash-and-burn agriculture. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

Personnel in the air and maritime transportation industries are not subject fully to the law, but are free to form unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "in the air": be in the air ♦ be up in the air ♦ build castles in the air ♦ by appearances in the air ♦ Castle in the air ♦ castles in the air ♦ hang in the air ♦ Hole in the air ♦ it tarnishes in the air ♦ living in the air ♦ remain in the air ♦ shoot in the air ♦ something in the air ♦ throw one's arms in the air ♦ tightness in the air ♦ up in the air. Additional references.

Albanian

në erë (alee). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معلق (hang, hang in the balance, hanging, pendent, pending, suspended, unsettled), ‏بلا هوية, ‏بلا أساس (footless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напрегната атмосфера (tightness in the air). (various references)

Chinese 

空中 (in the sky), 半空中 (in mid air). (various references)

Czech

v rádiu (on the air). (various references)

Danish

hver enkelt forbraendingsmotor,der benyttes til at traekke et hejsespil,boer vaere udstyret med en lukkeventil,der hurtigt kan lukke af for braendstoftilfoerslen samt en lukkeventil,der hurtigt kan lukke af for luftindtagsarrangementet,hvorved saadanne mo (each internal combustion engine used to drive a drawworks should have a quick closing fuel shut-off valve and a quick closing shut-off valve in the air intake manifold, which can be used to stop such engines promptly in the case of emergency). (various references)

Dutch

elke voor de aandrijving van een rotarykraan gebruikte verbrandingsmotor dient te zijn voorzien van een snelsluitende brandstofklep en een snelsleutende klep in het luchtinlaatbroekstuk,met behulp waarvan de motor in geval van nood prompt kan worden gesto (each internal combustion engine used to drive a drawworks should have a quick closing fuel shut-off valve and a quick closing shut-off valve in the air intake manifold, which can be used to stop such engines promptly in the case of emergency), de in de lucht aanwezige minerale elementen van kunstmatige oorsprong worden als merkstoffen en verontreinigingsindicatoren in aanmerking genomen (the artificially produced mineral substances present in the air are taken into consideration as tracers and indicators of pollution). (various references)

Finnish

tuulentupa (castle in the air), tuntua ilmassa (be in the air), pilvilinna (castle in the air), nenä pystyssä (with one's nose in the air). (various references)

French

sans identité, sans fondement, en l'air, en air. (various references)

German

ungewiß. (various references)

Greek 

σε κυκλοφορία (operational). (various references)

Hebrew 

תלוי ועומ�" (pending). (various references)

Hungarian

levegõben (abn, airborne). (various references)

Indonesian

awang-awang (atmosphere, dizzi, far off, up in the air). (various references)

Italian

piano di volo compilato in volo (AFIL, flight plan filed in the air), ogni motore a combustione interna,usato per la trasmissione dell'argano,dovrebbe disporre di una valvola di rapida chiusura alimentazione del combustibile e di una valvola di rapida chiusura dell'aria nel collettore d'immissione aria,le quali possano esse (each internal combustion engine used to drive a drawworks should have a quick closing fuel shut-off valve and a quick closing shut-off valve in the air intake manifold, which can be used to stop such engines promptly in the case of emergency), nell'aria gli elementi minerali di origine artificiale sono considerati come traccianti e indicatori d'inquinamento (the artificially produced mineral substances present in the air are taken into consideration as tracers and indicators of pollution), l'effetto sinergetico coinvolge tanto gli agenti inquinanti gassosi quanto gli inquinanti particolari in sospensione nell'aria (a symptom ( of disease ) which can be ascribed to a synergistic effect involving both the gaseous and the particulate polluants suspended in the air), almanaccare (build castles in the air, daydream, dream, fantasize), AFIL (AFIL, air-filed flight plan, flight plan filed in the air), a causa di una perdita di tenuta si può formare molto velocemente una concentrazione dannosa di questo gas nell'aria (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"里霧中 (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, bewildered, in a fog, lose one's bearings, mystified, up in the air). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くうちゅうろうかく (a castle in the air), そら�'とぶ (to fly in the air), �"りむちゅう (all at sea, be in a maze, be totally at a loss, bewildered, in a fog, lose one's bearings, mystified, up in the air), よい�"じょうじょう (lingering in the air), ちゅうにうく (to float in the air), えにかいたもち (castle in the air, pie in the sky). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay ethay airay

Portuguese

irresoluto (double-minded, half-hearted, hesitant, indecisive, infirm, irresolute, shilly-shally, undecided, undetermined, unready, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed), indeciso (blear, double-minded, doubtful, drawn, feckless, fitful, half-hearted, halting, indecisive, indeterminate, irresolute, lacklustre, pendant, pendent, pending, shilly-shally, suspended, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, unsolved, unsteady, up in the air, vacillating, vague, wavering), no caso de fugas,atinge-se muito rapidamente uma concentração nociva deste gás no ar (a harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very fast on loss of containment), estar por ser resolvido (be up in the air), efeitos de sinergia envolvendo os poluentes atmosféricos gasosos e as partículas em suspensão no ar (a symptom ( of disease ) which can be ascribed to a synergistic effect involving both the gaseous and the particulate polluants suspended in the air), as substâncias minerais de origem artificial presentes no ar podem ser consideradas como traçadores e indicadores de poluição (the artificially produced mineral substances present in the air are taken into consideration as tracers and indicators of pollution). (various references)

Romanian

se rãspândi (be abroad, be in the air, diffuse, get out, grow, overspread, penetrate, run, se rãspândi, spread), pierde luciul la aer (it tarnishes in the air), fi nesigur (be in the air, hang). (various references)

Russian 

в воздухе (midair). (various references)

Scottish

smiot (throw in the air with one hand and strike with the other). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u vazduhu (air: in the air), priča se (air: be in the air). (various references)

Spanish

vilo, en vilo, en el aire (in the wind, up, up in the air). (various references)

Swedish

inte vara bestämd (be in the air), rasande (apoplectic, delirous, enraged, frantic, furious, furiously, irate, ireful, livid, raging, savage, tearing, up in the air, wild), oviss (contingent, doubtful, hanging, indeterminate, open, uncertain, up in the air), ligga i luften (be in the air), gälla (be available, be in the air, be valid, be worth, come to, concern, count for, go, hold, obtain, pass, pass for). (various references)

Thai

ฝันกลางวัน (build castles in Spain, build castles in the air). (various references)

Turkish

ortalıkta dolaşan, olası (a priori, contingent, contingently, earthly, eventual, feasible, in the cards, incidental, liable, like, likely, off, on the cards, plausible, possible, probable, prospective, within the bounds of possibility), kararlaştırılmamış (undecided, undetermined, unfixed, unsettled, up in the air), havada (aflight, afloat, aloft, overhead). (various references)

Ukrainian

на свіжому повітрі. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hairnet, inearth, inertia, inherit.

-2 letters: anther, hernia, hinter, ratine, retain, retina, tahini, thenar, tinier.

-3 letters: airth, antre, earth, entia, hater, heart, inert, inter, irate, ither, neath, niter, nitre, rathe, retia, riant, tenia, terai, thane, thein, their, thine, tinea, train, trine.

-4 letters: airn, airt, ante, anti, earn, eath, etna, haen, haet, hair, hant, hare, hart.

+1 letter: inhabiter, reinhabit, trichinae.

+2 letters: antheridia, antiheroic, herniating, herniation, inearthing, inhabiters, interchain, interfaith, reinhabits, thorianite.

+3 letters: antheridial, antheridium, antiheroine, herniations, hibernating, hibernation, inbreathing, ingathering, inheritable, inheritance, interchains, interparish, reinhabited, rhetorician, thorianites, traineeship, xiphisterna.

+4 letters: airtightness, antiheroines, antihysteric, azathioprine, etherization, exhilarating, exhilaration, hebraization, hereditarian, hibernations, hierophantic, ingatherings, inheritances, interchained, labyrinthine, prehistorian, rehabilitant, reinhabiting, relationship, rhetoricians, theoretician, theorization, thermalizing, thioridazine, traineeships, trephination, weatherizing.