Antenna
noun
It's a rod, wire, or similar device used to send or receive radio or television signals.
I adjusted the antenna on my radio to get a better signal.
Often appears as...
- satellite antenna
- adjust the antenna
noun
It's the part on an insect or crustacean that sticks out and is used for sensing things.
The insect uses its antenna to feel its surroundings.
Often appears as...
- insect antenna
- antenna movement
noun
In the context of converting information into electrical signals, antenna means a conversion device.
The antenna on the device boosts the wireless signal.
Often appears as...
- wireless antenna
- antenna signal
Usage tips
Technical
noun
It refers to the ability of perceiving or receiving information instinctively.
He seems to have a good antenna for knowing when something isn't right.
Often appears as...
- good antenna
- have an antenna
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
It's a rod, wire, or similar device used to send or receive radio or television signals.
I adjusted the antenna on my radio to get a better signal.
Often appears as...
- satellite antenna
- adjust the antenna
noun
It's the part on an insect or crustacean that sticks out and is used for sensing things.
The insect uses its antenna to feel its surroundings.
Often appears as...
- insect antenna
- antenna movement
noun
In the context of converting information into electrical signals, antenna means a conversion device.
The antenna on the device boosts the wireless signal.
Often appears as...
- wireless antenna
- antenna signal
Usage tips
Technical
noun
It refers to the ability of perceiving or receiving information instinctively.
He seems to have a good antenna for knowing when something isn't right.
Often appears as...
- good antenna
- have an antenna
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
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Pro Tip 1/3Signal Quality
Antennas affect the clarity of the signal received or sent by electronic devices.
We installed a larger antenna to improve our TV's signal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Adjustment
Moving an antenna can enhance signal reception or broadcasting.
Can you tilt the antenna a bit to reduce the static?
Pro Tip 3/3Equipment Location
The location of an antenna can affect its functionality, with higher places being preferable.
The roof is the best location for your new satellite antenna.
Pro Tip 1/3Signal Quality
Antennas affect the clarity of the signal received or sent by electronic devices.
We installed a larger antenna to improve our TV's signal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Adjustment
Moving an antenna can enhance signal reception or broadcasting.
Can you tilt the antenna a bit to reduce the static?
Pro Tip 3/3Equipment Location
The location of an antenna can affect its functionality, with higher places being preferable.
The roof is the best location for your new satellite antenna.
Pro Tip 1/3Signal Quality
Antennas affect the clarity of the signal received or sent by electronic devices.
We installed a larger antenna to improve our TV's signal quality.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Adjustment
Moving an antenna can enhance signal reception or broadcasting.
Can you tilt the antenna a bit to reduce the static?
Pro Tip 3/3Equipment Location
The location of an antenna can affect its functionality, with higher places being preferable.
The roof is the best location for your new satellite antenna.
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Making neuroscience...
cockroach actually use this so let's look at one example is antennas so the cockroach just uses the antenna to sort of navigate the world right if you look at the antenna sit covered with hairs if you look at each hair it has neurons inside of it what are those neurons telling the brain it's telling it like things that it touches or things that it
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
and my physicist CEO came in and said, "We have a real problem. We're using very short wavelengths. We've got a problem with the antenna ringing. When you run very short wavelengths, like a tuning fork the antenna resonates, and there's more energy coming out of the antenna than there is the backscatter from the ground
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How the James Webb Space...
this origami telescope. First we unfolded the solar panels. Then we unfold the transmitter antenna so we can talk back and forth. Then we unfold the panels that hold the great sunshade in place. This takes us actually two weeks in real life. You see it compressed here so we can show it to you.
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How do self-driving cars...
and a miniature version of the communications technology that keeps the internet humming, called integrated photonics. To understand LIDAR, it helps to start with a related technology— radar. In aviation, radar antennas launch pulses of radio or microwaves at planes
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Solar System Exploration:...
what you want to look at first is the antenna because that's an important part of the story you can see it's very very large comparing it with the size of the people who are standing around there's a boom sticking out and there are two
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Cockroach Infestation PIPE...
males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate
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Swimming Cricket Bites...
the apex predator there is an animal perfectly adapted for life as a hunter in pitch dartmouth it's got everything it needs it's got long antennae it's got these very sensitive tarps here for feeling
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Heart Attack Moment PIPE...
the first cut the first piece highest top piece of the antenna is currently rigged up it's a moment of truth it's do-or-die time let's cut it cut cut gorges on go on time to get serious
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Giant Centipede PIPE...
completely helpless speaking of grocery shopping the centipede relies on ground vibrations and antennae touch to locate a feast like this one mom senses danger and races to the rescue
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The dawn of the age of...
we've explored from a seat behind screens and keyboards. Now, we're leaping over all of that, over the giant antennas and the relay satellites and the vastness between worlds
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Making neuroscience...
cockroach actually use this so let's look at one example is antennas so the cockroach just uses the antenna to sort of navigate the world right if you look at the antenna sit covered with hairs if you look at each hair it has neurons inside of it what are those neurons telling the brain it's telling it like things that it touches or things that it
Video examples
Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
and my physicist CEO came in and said, "We have a real problem. We're using very short wavelengths. We've got a problem with the antenna ringing. When you run very short wavelengths, like a tuning fork the antenna resonates, and there's more energy coming out of the antenna than there is the backscatter from the ground
Video examples
How the James Webb Space...
this origami telescope. First we unfolded the solar panels. Then we unfold the transmitter antenna so we can talk back and forth. Then we unfold the panels that hold the great sunshade in place. This takes us actually two weeks in real life. You see it compressed here so we can show it to you.
Video examples
How do self-driving cars...
and a miniature version of the communications technology that keeps the internet humming, called integrated photonics. To understand LIDAR, it helps to start with a related technology— radar. In aviation, radar antennas launch pulses of radio or microwaves at planes
Video examples
Solar System Exploration:...
what you want to look at first is the antenna because that's an important part of the story you can see it's very very large comparing it with the size of the people who are standing around there's a boom sticking out and there are two
Video examples
Cockroach Infestation PIPE...
males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate
Video examples
Swimming Cricket Bites...
the apex predator there is an animal perfectly adapted for life as a hunter in pitch dartmouth it's got everything it needs it's got long antennae it's got these very sensitive tarps here for feeling
Video examples
Heart Attack Moment PIPE...
the first cut the first piece highest top piece of the antenna is currently rigged up it's a moment of truth it's do-or-die time let's cut it cut cut gorges on go on time to get serious
Video examples
Giant Centipede PIPE...
completely helpless speaking of grocery shopping the centipede relies on ground vibrations and antennae touch to locate a feast like this one mom senses danger and races to the rescue
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
we've explored from a seat behind screens and keyboards. Now, we're leaping over all of that, over the giant antennas and the relay satellites and the vastness between worlds
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Quote examples
Sarah Jeong
American Journalist
Star Wars' is life, but 'Star Wars' is also not very good, which is why 'Rogue One' - a Frankenstein's monster assembled from a butchered first cut and an excessively large space antenna that only exists to add another 30 minutes to the film - is one of the better 'Star Wars' movies.
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Anja Niedringhaus
German Photographer
I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
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Bob Goff
American Author
When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.
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James Bay
British Musician
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
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Terrence Howard
American Actor
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.
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Ben Carson
American Scientist
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
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Jeff Kinney
American Writer
It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.
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Ian Rankin
Scottish Writer
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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Glenn Ligon
American Artist
It's an artist's job to always have their antennas up.
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Sarah Jeong
American Journalist
Star Wars' is life, but 'Star Wars' is also not very good, which is why 'Rogue One' - a Frankenstein's monster assembled from a butchered first cut and an excessively large space antenna that only exists to add another 30 minutes to the film - is one of the better 'Star Wars' movies.
Quote examples
Anja Niedringhaus
German Photographer
I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.
Quote examples
Jhumpa Lahiri
American Author
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
Quote examples
Bob Goff
American Author
When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.
Quote examples
James Bay
British Musician
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
Quote examples
Terrence Howard
American Actor
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.
Quote examples
Ben Carson
American Scientist
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
Quote examples
Jeff Kinney
American Writer
It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.
Quote examples
Ian Rankin
Scottish Writer
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
Quote examples
Glenn Ligon
American Artist
It's an artist's job to always have their antennas up.
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