Ether

Definitions: Ether

Ether

Noun

1. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.

2. (archaic) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies.

3. A medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves.

"Ether" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "talk".

Date "ether" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Ether

Domain	Definitions
Computing	ETHER A concurrent object-oriented language? (1997-03-18). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
19th Century Satire	One of the world's three great composers--the others being Gas and Chloroform--whose airs are popular among the suffering. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Chemistry	One of a class of organic compounds in which any two organic radicals are attached directly to a single oxygen atom. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Ether

Synonyms: aether (n), diethel ether (n), divinyl ether (n), ethoxyethane (n), ethyl ether (n), quintessence (n), vinyl ether (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ether

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gaseity	Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
Levity	Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
Physical Insensibility	Anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.
Rarity	Ether. (gas).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ether

English words defined with "ether": Abietine, Alban, Amylic ♦ Bilin, Boiling point ♦ Cerin, Chloric ether, Cholic acid, collodion, Compound ether ♦ Daniell's hygrometer, diethel ether, divinyl ether ♦ Ethenic, Ether engine, ethereal, Ethereal medium, Ethereal tincture, Ethereous, Etherification, Etheriform, etherify, Etherin, Etherization, etherize, ethyl ether ♦ Glycolic, Gun cotton ♦ Isethionic ♦ Letheon, Lipochrin, Luminiferous ♦ Methyl ether, Methylal ♦ Naphtha vitrioli ♦ Octylic, Oenanthylic, Oenanthylous, Orthocarbonic ♦ Phenetol, Pleurotoma, Pulse glass, Pyroacetic, Pyrogallate ♦ Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson, spirit gum, spirit level, Spirit of nitrous ether, Spirit of vitriolic ether, stearic acid, Sulphur ether, Surface of elasticity, Sweet spirits of niter ♦ Urrhodin ♦ Veratrol, vinyl ether. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ether": acetic ether, additives ♦ benzyl cellulose ♦ Chernobyl packet ♦ Dihematoporphyrin Ether, DRIER OPERATOR V ♦ Ether, Ethyl, ethyl cellulose, ETHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER ♦ Freezing-point ♦ Guaiacol Glyceryl Ether ♦ Hematoporphyrin Derivative, hydroxyethyl cellulose ♦ LEVEL-GLASS-VIAL FILLER ♦ magnitude, METHYL TERTIARY BUTYLETHER, molecule, MTBE ♦ petroleum ether, Plasmalogens, Poloxalene, polyvinylchloride-isobutyl ether, Pyran Copolymer ♦ reussinite ♦ Sulfur Hexafluoride ♦ Triclosan ♦ ubiquity ♦ wave theory of radiation, wheelerite. (references)

Etymologies containing "ether": Ethane, Ethereous ♦ Methal ♦ Thetine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ether" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (ether).

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Modern Usage: Ether

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And when I was in the delivery room, waking up from the ether, I asked the nurse whether it was a boy or a girl. (The Great Gatsby; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Movie/TV Titles	Patrolling the Ether (1944) Ship of the Ether (1934) Out of the Ether (1933)
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Commercial Usage: Ether

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Ethers, Alcohol Peroxides, Ether Peroxides, and Epoxides in Africa (reference) The 2002 World Forecasts of Ethers, Alcohol Peroxides, Ether Peroxides, and Epoxides Export Supplies (reference) The 2003 World Forecasts of Ethers, Alcohol Peroxides, Ether Peroxides, and Epoxides Export Supplies (reference) The World Market for Ethers, Alcohol Peroxides, Ether Peroxides, and Epoxides: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Einstein and the Ether (reference) Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It (reference) Ironclads & Ether Flyers: Aeronaval Combat for Space 1889 (reference) Radionics Interface With the Ether Fields (reference) Some Ether (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Wagner - Die Feen (The Fairies) / Ether Gray, J. Alexander, J. Anderson, Studer, Hermann, Rootering, Orth, Lövaas, Laki, Moll, Helm; Sawallisch (reference) Songs From the Ether (reference) Thanks for the Ether (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Device Server 10/100 RJ45 Ether Db25 Rs232 Serial Ip Http Snmp (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Ether

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Photo Album: Ether

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Allis' Ether Inhaler.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Lente's Ether Inhaler.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Ormsby's Ether Inhaler.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Anesthesia: Table on which Liston preformed the first operation under ether anesthesia].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	A Ships Bay Before The Days Of Ether And Asepsis / G. Ortiz.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Morton demonstrating the administration of ether at Massachusetts General Hospital].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury, which disproved existence of luminiferous ether and its role in the transmission of eletromagnetic waves; with surrounding text.Credit: Library of Congress.		Ether Monument, Public Garden, Boston, The.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Ether

Author	Quotation
Henry David Thoreau	The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ether

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Ether

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The most commonly used agents are methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), which is experimental, and to a much lesser degree, monooctanoin, which is approved for the dissolution of bile duct stones. (references)
		Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked. (references)
Business		China still needs to import 40-60,000 tons of alcohol ether annually. (references)
		China has a total of 102 ethoxylation units, 10 of which are imported from abroad, with annual output of alcohol ether totaling 40,000 tons. However, imported ethoxylation units are only at the initial stage of production. (references)
Economic History	Qatar	Established: By Emiri Decree No. 20 in 1992. Objectives: To produce 830,000 metric tons per annum (mtpa) of methanol and 610,000 mtpa of MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether). (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ether

"Ether" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Ether" is used about 138 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
Noun (singular)	99.28%	137	27,138
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.72%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	138	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Ether

Expressions using "ether": acetic ether ♦ addicted to ether ♦ addiction to ether ♦ Bis(Chloromethyl) Ether ♦ Chloric ether ♦ Complex ether ♦ Compound ether ♦ diethel ether ♦ dihematoporphyrin ether ♦ dimethyl ether ♦ diphenyl ether ♦ divinyl ether ♦ ether addict ♦ Ether engine ♦ ether intoxication ♦ ether wave ♦ ethyl ether ♦ Guaiacol Glyceryl Ether ♦ luminiferous ether ♦ methyl ether ♦ mixed ether ♦ morphine methyl ether ♦ OEnanthic ether ♦ petroleum ether ♦ phenyl ether ♦ pyroacetic ether ♦ spirit of nitrous ether ♦ spirit of vitriolic ether ♦ sulphur ether ♦ sulphuric ether ♦ vinyl ether. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ether": ether-anaesthetized, ether-library.
	Ending with "ether": sub-ether.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ether

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
ether	221	cellulose ether	5
petroleum ether	70	ether peek	5
diethyl ether	28	ether net	5
ether lyrics nas	24	crown ether	5
glycol ether	24	ether card	5
ether seed	17	sodium lauryl ether sulfate	4
ether zone	16	buy ether petroleum	4
ether lyrics	16	ether history	4
ethyl ether	14	ether use	4
ether frequenties	12	diethyl ether msds	4
dimethyl ether	11	density diethyl ether	4
ether make	10	diethylene ether glycol monobutyl	4
ether nas	10	ether lord	4
agency ether media new	8	ether thio	4
1 ether testosterone thp	6	ether synthesis williamson	4
anaesthesia ether	6	ether nc	3
son of ether	6	ether fog tooth	3
curious ether george	5	alcohol ether	3
1 t ether	5	drug ether	3
ether real	5	buthyl ether ethyl tertiary	3
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Modern Translations: Ether

Language		Translations for "ether"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		eter, ajër i kulluar. (various references)

Arabic		‏السماء الصافية (azure), ‏الأتير سائل فيزيائى منوم, ‏الأثير. (various references)

Bulgarian		ефир (air), етер. (various references)

Chinese		醚 (pour libation on ground), 乙太 , 以太. (various references)

Czech		éter (air). (various references)

Danish		ethylether (diethyl ether, ethyl ether), ether (diethyl ether, ethyl ether), diethylether (diethyl ether, ethyl ether, sulfuric ether), aeter (sulfuric ether), æter. (various references)

Dutch		ether (diethyl ether, ethyl ether, gasoline, naphta, sprit). (various references)

Esperanto		etero. (various references)

Farsi		مایع سبکی که ازتقطیرالکل , اتر, اثیر. (various references)

Finnish		eetteri. (various references)

French		éther (diethyl ether, etcher, ethyl ether). (various references)

German		äther (air), Äther. (various references)

Greek		αιθέρας. (various references)

Hungarian		éter. (various references)

Indonesian		eter (upper air). (various references)

Italian		etere (aerospace, aether, air, breath, diethyl ether, ethyl ether). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		天空 (air, firmament, sky), アンモニア水 (ammonia water, ammonium, aqueous ammonia, eagle, Easter, easy, easy care, easy going, easy listening music, easy order, easy payment, EC, etherboard, Ethernet, European Community, loose-fitting pants with an elastic or drawcord waist, routine fly ball, unlock, unlucky, unmoral), ウロン酸 (ace, acre, age, age shooter, age-group, ageing, ageism, agency, agent, aging, agism, someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment., undine, uronic acid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		イーサ , エーテル , て�"くう (air, firmament, sky). (various references)

Korean		에테르 (Ethereal). (various references)

Pig Latin		etheray

Portuguese		éter (ethereal). (various references)

Romanian		eter (air, sky). (various references)

Russian		эфир (airwave, airwaves, ester), простой эфир. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		eter. (various references)

Spanish		éter. (various references)

Swedish		eter (ethoxyethane). (various references)

Thai		อากาศ (ทางวรร�"ค�"ี), อีเธอร์. (various references)

Turkish		eter (aether), lokmanruhu (aether), gökyüzü (air, azure, canopy of heaven, heaven, skies, sky, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin). (various references)

Ukranian		ефір (air). (various references)

Vietnamese		chín tầng mây, bầu trời trong sáng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ether

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	aither. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aer, aeris, aether, aethera, Ã¦ther. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Ether

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 25
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai hsan oi duo gumnoi o te adam kai h gunh autou kai ouk hscunonto
Latin	405	Vulgate	Erant autem uterque nudi Adam scilicet et uxor eius et non erubescebant
Old English	990	West Saxon	Hi wæron ða buta, Adam ond his wif, nacode ond him ðæs ne sceamode.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Either forsothe was nakid, Adam, that is, and his wijf, and thei shameden noyt.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they were ether of them naked both Adam and hys wyfe ad were not ashamed:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Ether

Language	Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 25
Cebuano	Ug silang duruha mga hubo, si Adam ug ang iyang asawa, ug sila wala mangaulaw.
Croatian	A bijahu oboje goli - èovjek i njegova žena - ali ne osjeæahu stida.
Danish	Og de var begge nøgne, både Adam og hans Hustru, men de bluedes ikke.
Dutch	En zij waren beiden naakt, Adam en zijn vrouw; en zij schaamden zich niet.
Finnish	Ja he olivat molemmat, mies ja hänen vaimonsa, alasti eivätkä hävenneet toisiansa.
French	L`homme et sa femme étaient tous deux nus, et ils n`en avaient point honte.
German	Und sie waren beide nackt, der Mensch und das Weib, und schämten sich nicht.
Haitian Creole	Nonm lan ak madanm li te toutouni. Men, yo pa t' wont rete konsa.
Hungarian	Valának pedig mindketten mezítelenek, az ember és az õ felesége, és nem szégyenlik vala.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Laki-laki dan perempuan itu telanjang, tetapi mereka tidak merasa malu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hata, maka keduanyapun bertelanjang tubuhnya, baik Adam baik Hawa, maka tiada malu ia.
Italian	Ora tutti e due erano nudi, l'uomo e sua moglie, ma non ne provavano vergogna.
Maori	A e tu tahanga ana raua tokorua, te tangata me tana wahine, kihai hoki i whakama.
Norwegian	Og de var nakne både Adam og hans hustru, men bluedes ikke.
Portuguese	E ambos estavam nus, o homem e sua mulher; e não se envergonhavam.
Rumanian	Omul wi nevasta lui erau amkndoi goi, wi nu le era ruwine.
Spanish	Estaban ambos desnudos, el hombre y su mujer, y no se avergonzaban.
Swedish	Och mannen och hans hustru voro båda nakna och blygdes icke för varandra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ether

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ether": ethereal, etherealities, ethereality, etherealization, etherealizations, etherealize, etherealized, etherealizes, etherealizing, ethereally, etherealness, etherealnesses, etheric, etherified, etherifies, etherify, etherifying, etherish, etherization, etherizations, etherize, etherized, etherizer, etherizers, etherizes, etherizing, ethers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "ether": aether, altogether, bellwether, blether, comether, diether, nether, teether, tether, together, untether, untogether, wether, whether. (additional references)
	Words containing "ether": aetheric, aethers, altogethers, bellwethers, blethered, blethering, blethers, comethers, diethers, nethermost, netherworld, netherworlds, teethers, tetherball, tetherballs, tethered, tethering, tethers, togetherness, togethernesses, untethered, untethering, untethers, wethers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ether" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ather, athery, bether, dether, Dethier, eather, echer, eether, eher, Eheu, eht, Elthor, eohr, Eothen, ephe, erhe, esher, Etbe, etce, etcet, eter, etha, ethen, etherf, Etherow, Etherx, ethery, ethio, ethiq, ethod, Ethyrra, etth, fether, gethe, gether, hether, ithe, ither, Kether, mehter, mether, Pethor, rether, ther, uther, wether. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ether"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ether" (pronounced ē"ther)
2	-th er	author, coauthor, panther.
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Anagrams: Ether

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: there, three.
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-r-t"
	-1 letter: here, rete, thee, tree.
	-2 letters: ere, eth, her, het, ree, ret, tee, the.
	-3 letters: eh, er, et, he, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-r-t"
	+1 letter: aether, either, etcher, ethers, heater, hefter, hereat, hereto, hetero, nether, reheat, tether, theres, therme, threep, threes, wether.
	+2 letters: aethers, berthed, blether, breathe, cheater, diether, earthed, earthen, erethic, etchers, etheric, feather, fetcher, freshet, greenth, haltere, hearted, hearten, heaters, heather, hectare, hefters, heftier, heister, hektare, heretic, hertzes, hetaera, heteros, leather, neither, preheat, prithee, prythee, recheat, reheats, retched, retches, reteach, sheeter, shelter, sherbet, teacher, techier, teether, telpher, terefah, tethers, theater, theatre, theorem, thereat, thereby, therein, thereof, thereon, thereto, thermae, thermel, thermes, thewier, threeps, trochee, weather, wethers, whereat, whereto, whether, whetter, wreathe.
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