アンテナ

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Meanings

1

Physical device for sending or receiving radio waves, used in broadcasting, communication, and radio astronomy.

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A TV antenna is standing on the roof.

スマホのアンテナが壊こわれたので、電でん波ぱが弱よわい。

My smartphone's antenna is broken, so the signal is weak.

2

information-gathering tool; sensing method

Figurative extension: a person, network, or method used to pick up information, trends, or public opinion, like a metaphorical antenna.

〈場ば所しょ〉にアンテナを立たてるto put up an antenna at a place
屋や根ねにテレビのアンテナを立たてた。
We put up a TV antenna on the roof.
アンテナを張はるto keep one's antenna up (for information or trends)
彼かの女じょは常つねに最さい新しん情じょう報ほうにアンテナを張はっている。
She always keeps her antenna up for the latest information.
アンテナが高たかいto be highly perceptive or well-informed
彼かれはファッションに関かんしてアンテナが高たかい。
He's very perceptive when it comes to fashion trends.
〈事こと〉がアンテナにひっかかるfor something to catch one's attention/radar
その噂うわさが私わたしのアンテナにひっかかった。
That rumor caught on my radar.

情じょう報ほう網もう sense 2
情報網 is a formal term for an organized information-gathering network, while アンテナ (figurative sense) suggests a personal sensitivity or antenna-like alertness to trends.
触しょっ覚かく sense 2
触覚 literally means 'feelers/antennae' (as on an insect) and is used more literarily for sensing things, whereas アンテナ is the everyday word for a person's information-gathering sense.

パラボラアンテナ
アンテナ is the general word for any antenna, while パラボラアンテナ specifically means the dish-shaped parabolic type used for satellite reception.

本ほんN5
Used because an antenna (アンテナ) is a long, thin object, which is generally counted with 本.
基き
「基」can be used for a fixed/installed antenna, treating it as a piece of installed equipment.

アンテナショップ
regional specialty shop; antenna shop · test-market shop; pilot shop; showroom
パラボラアンテナ
parabolic antenna; satellite dish
双そう極きょくアンテナ
dipole antenna; dipole; doublet antenna
受じゅ信しんアンテナ
receiving antenna; receiver antenna

Borrowed from English 'antenna'. The figurative sense is a direct extension of the physical device, common in Japanese business and media contexts.

planar antenna

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