English word antenna comes from English pole, English sailyard, English yard, Latin antemna ((nautical) yard, yardarm. Antenna.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| pole | English (en) | (transitive) To convey on poles.. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.. To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles. (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.. (historical) A unit of [...] |
| sailyard | English (en) | (entomology, obsolete) An antenna of an insect.. (nautical) A yard to which the sails of a ship are bent.. (obsolete) One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached. |
| yard | English (en) | (finance) 109, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard. (transitive) To confine to a yard. (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.. (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.. (obsolete) A branch, twig, [...] |
| antemna | Latin (lat) | (nautical) yard, yardarm. Antenna. |
| antenna | English (en) | A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.. An apparatus to receive or transmit radio waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.. The faculty of intuitive astuteness. |