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Definition: Aired |
AiredAdjective1. Open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms". 2. Made widely known especially by radio or television; "the broadcast news"; "everyone heard the broadcast rumors". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
Synonyms: AiredSynonyms: airy (adj), broadcast (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Aired |
| English words defined with "aired": air, Airer ♦ bare ♦ publicise, publicize. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aired": master control engineer, MASTER CONTROL OPERATOR ♦ studio technician-video operator ♦ videotape engineer, VIDEOTAPE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I paid to have it aired during the Super Bowl (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aired in Court (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Depression of Kansans on seeing the family skeleton aired. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rag rugs being aired, Winton, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmhouse near Antioch with mattresses and bedding being aired. Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A summer cabin closed up all winter is probably full of molds and should be aired out and cleaned before a mold-sensitive person stays there. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Maldives | Reports drawn from foreign newscasts are aired on the Government television station. (references) |
China | This incident, captured on film by surveillance cameras, was aired in graphic detail on television. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | The Pope celebrated an outdoor Mass to a crowd of 50,000, which was aired on national television and radio channels. (references) | |
Economic History | Romania | Complaints continue to be aired by one of the largest U.S. investment funds present in Romania regarding the abuse of minority shareholder rights. (references) |
Switzerland | TV advertising prices are based on 1,000 contacts (targeted viewing audience), and vary in price from SF 20-27 ( $ 12-16) per unit of contact, according to the time of the day it is aired. (references) | |
Vietnam | As part of a novel approach to trade promotion, one Asian country donates free programming rights for popular television shows to Vietnam, with the condition that only products imported from that "donor" country may be aired during those programs. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ukraine | Aleksandrov had aired a number of critical reports of Donetsk-based politicians and was a noted critic of alleged corruption among local law enforcement authorities. (references) |
Malaysia | Most observers believe this was because the charges were without basis and would have resulted in further government embarrassment should they have been aired in open court. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | There is a television broadcast in Ruthenian on STV, which is aired once every 2 months. (references) |
Political Rights | Algeria | Further, televised parliamentary debates aired uncensored and uncut allow all parties access to the electronic media. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aired" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 73.13% of the time. "Aired" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 73.13% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.88% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.99% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "aired": little-aired, well-aired. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aired | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aired"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 宣扬 (Airing, airs). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuulettua (be ventilated, become aired). (various references) | |
French | liquide altéré (aired fluid). (various references) | |
German | ausgelüftet. (various references) | |
Italian | olio alterato (aired fluid). (various references) | |
Korean | "람쐬". (various references) | |
Manx | soilshit magh (aired as knowledge), currit 'sy gheay (aired as clothes), chiowit (aired as bed, heated, warmed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aireday.(various references) | |
Romanian | aerat (aerated), zvântat (dry). (various references) | |
Russian | проветривать проветренный (aerated). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юemallamak (be aired out, inflated), яelejirmek (be aired out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "aired": chaired, cochaired, deaired, despaired, faired, glaired, haired, impaired, laired, longhaired, paired, repaired, shorthaired, unaired, unhaired, unimpaired, unpaired, waired, wirehaired. (additional references) | |
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"Aired" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahed, aard, aarde, aare, abire, abred, Aciieed, adred, Aerad, aered, aereo, Afredo, agire, Agreda, agrred, ahire, Aieee, Aieeee, aier, aiere, aieres, aiers, aiery, Aife, Ailred, airaid, aird, aire, airea, airee, airees, airel, airen, aireo, aires, Airex, airey, airi, Airjet, airread, airred, airres, airted, Airuk, aited, aized, alire, Alrad, alred, alredy, Anirudh, aored, aqire, Arde, ared, arede, Areeda, Arend, ariad, aride, aried, Arieh, ariez, avirex, awired, axire, ayre, Ayurveda, Azrad, Bairrada, iard, iare, ired, iredd, irred, kired, naire, saried, vaired, vired. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aired" (pronounced e"rd) |
| 3 | e" r d | bared, blared, cared, chaired, compared, dared, declared, despaired, laird, ensnared, erred, fared, flared, glared, haired, impaired, paired, pared, prepared, repaired, scared, shared, snared, spared, squared, stared, undeclared, unimpaired, unprepared. |
| 2 | -r d | aboveboard, accord, abhorred, aboard, adhered, adored, afford, allured, appeared, aspired, assured, attired, award, backyard, bankcard, bard, barnyard, barred, baseboard, beard, billboard, bioengineered, blackboard, board, boatyard, bodyguard, bombard, bored, Boulevard, brickyard, broadsword, canard, card, cardboard, cashiered, Chard, charred, checkerboard, cheered, chessboard, chipboard, chord, churchyard, clapboard, clavichord, cleared, clipboard, commandeered, concord, containerboard, contoured, cord, courtyard, cured, dartboard, dashboard, deplored, detoured, diehard, disappeared, disbarred, discard, inured, jarred, jeered, junkyard, keyboard, landlord, lanyard, lard, leotard, lifeguard, linerboard, Lord, lumberyard, lured, discord, disregard, dockyard, eared, endeared, endured, engineered, ensured, expired, explored, farmyard, feared, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, fjord, floorboard, floored, Ford, Gabbard, geared, gored, gourd, graveyard, graybeard, guard, hard, hardboard, harpsichord, headboard, hoard, horde, ignored, implored, inboard, insured, interfered, marred, matured, mired, moored, mopboard, nard, neared, notochord, oared, obscured, onboard, outboard, outscored, overboard, overlord, paperboard, peered, pegboard, persevered, pioneered, plasterboard, pored, postcard, poured, premiered, prerecord, pressboard, procured, reacquired, reappeared, reared, reassured, reboard, record, regard, reinsured, restored, retard. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aider, deair, irade, redia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r" | |
-1 letter: aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, idea, ired, raid, read, ride. | |
-2 letters: aid, air, are, die, ear, era, ire, rad, red, rei, ria, rid. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, ar, de, ed, er, id, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r" | |
+1 letter: abider, admire, aeried, aiders, airted, arider, ariled, caried, daiker, deairs, dearie, denari, derail, dialer, diaper, faired, haired, irades, laired, paired, pardie, raided, raider, railed, rained, raised, rediae, redial, redias, relaid, repaid, resaid, roadie, tirade, uredia, varied, waired. | |
+2 letters: abiders, abridge, acrider, admired, admirer, admires, adviser, airdate, airhead, airshed, airthed, aneroid, antired, araneid, aridest, arrived, aspired, astride, attired, avodire, avoider, bawdier, beadier, bedrail, braided, braider, brailed, brained, braised, brigade, cairned, carbide, cardiae, carried, chaired, daffier, daikers, dairies, dallier, dandier, darbies, dariole, dashier, daubier, deaired, dearies, deciare, decrial, deliria, denarii, deraign, derails, despair, detrain, dialers, dialler, diapers, diaries, diaster, diehard, dietary, dilater, diptera, disrate, drained, drainer, exordia, faddier, farside, gaudier, gladier, glaired, gradine, grained, hagride, handier, hardier, hardies, harried, hayride, headier, hydriae, inarmed, invader, jemidar, lardier, leadier, madeira, married, mermaid, midyear, misread, nardine, pardine, parried, partied, peracid, peridia, pirated, praised, predial, prepaid, querida, radiale, radiate, radicel, radices, radicle, radioed, radixes, raiders, rallied, randier, randies, raphide, rapider, ravined, rawhide, readied, readier, readies, readily, reading, readmit, redbait, redials, redtail, residua, ridable, rivaled, roadies, sandier, sardine, seabird, sedarim, shadier, sidearm, sidebar, sidecar, staider, tardier, tardies, tarried, tiaraed, tirades, traiked, trailed, trained, triaged, tribade, unaired, uranide, uredial, wearied. | |
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