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BNC: 16313 COCA: 16825

ether

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
ether /ˈiːθɚ/ noun
ether
/ˈiːθɚ/
noun
Learner's definition of ETHER
[noncount]
: a liquid that burns easily, that is used to turn solid substances into liquid, and that was used in medicine in the past to prevent patients from feeling pain during operations醚;乙醚
the ether : the air : the sky大气;天空
used especially when describing electronic signals that travel through the air尤用于描述无线电信号的传送
BNC: 16313 COCA: 16825
1
a
: the rarefied element formerly believed to fill the upper regions of space
b
: the upper regions of space : heavens
2
a
: a light volatile flammable liquid C4H10O used chiefly as a solvent and especially formerly as an anesthetic
b
: any of a class of organic compounds characterized by an oxygen atom attached to two carbon atoms
3
a
or less commonly aether : a medium that in the wave theory of light permeates all space and transmits transverse waves
b
etheric
i-ˈther-ik How to pronounce ether (audio)
-ˈthir-
adjective

Example Sentences

The balloon disappeared into the ether.
Recent Examples on the Web Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the CFTC, are pitching legislation that would assign oversight of the two largest cryptocurrencies—bitcoin and ether—to that agency. Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022 The Encyclopedia of Arkansas includes information that's not always readily available or easily accessible -- information that might be lost to the ether without some sort of digital mooring. Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2022 Ethereum’s 27-year-old co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has reclaimed the title of world’s youngest crypto billionaire, thanks to ether’s latest gains. Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021 The Swedish entrepreneur delivered Wednesday at the company’s first investor day as a public company, putting a massive growth target into the ether: $100 billion in annual revenue by 2030, roughly 10 times its haul from 2021. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 9 June 2022 They were convinced that any photograph would find its way into the ether and the Russians would see it and zero in on the location and send a rocket. James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022 Photographs in his file show a handsome, if rather vague-looking, man, his eyes sometimes boring into the camera, other times drifting off into the ether. oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2022 What connects them through the ether of the living room isn’t common electricity but dulcetly sizzling love. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021 Here is the tricky part of remote technology: All of those devices send information about us through the ether. Lisa Esch, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin aether, from Greek aithēr, from aithein to ignite, blaze; akin to Old English ād pyre — more at edify

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of ether was in the 14th century
BNC: 16313 COCA: 16825

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