Aerial refers to a radio antenna or something else that reaches into the air.
- Before cable TV, many people put TV aerials on their roofs.
- Aerial photography is becoming one of her favorite pastimes.
Ariel refers to a kind of gazelle or the brightest moon of Uranus.
- The ariel gazelle is under two feet tall and lives in the desert.
- Much of Ariel’s surface is pitted with craters.