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[ UK /ˈiːθɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˈiːθɐ/ ]
NOUN
- any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
- a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
How To Use ether In A Sentence
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
- It was a typical gesture of love and togetherness. The Sun
- We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other.
- At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
- A light tubular chassis with an inline 8 cylinder engine was made by cobbling a couple of sports engines together.
- The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
- Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times