ether

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈiː.θə/    美 /ˈi.θɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.; The medium breathed by human beings; the air. broadly,countable,literary,poetic,uncountable
    — On Wings the Birds through Æther glide, / And Fiſhes cut with Fins the Tide.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Ether. alt-of
    — Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether.
  3. The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.; The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. broadly,countable,literary,poetic,uncountable
    — Take a snapshot of the conflicts around the world: Sunnis vs. Shiites, Israelis vs. Palestinians, Serbs vs. Kosovars, Indians vs. Pakistanis. They seem to be driven by religious hatred. It’s enough to make you wonder if the animosity would melt away if all religions were suddenly, somehow, to vanish into the ether. But James Carse doesn’t see them as religious conflicts at all. To him, they are battles over rival belief systems, which may or may not have religious overtones.
  4. Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: The hypothetical substance permeating space, functioning as a medium for electromagnetic waves to propagate through, and which does not exert resistance to the movement of matter; its existence is incompatible with Einstein's theory of relativity; famously found to be undetectable by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment. historical,uncountable
    — I ſuppose this æther pervades all groſs bodies, but yet ſo as to ſtand rarer in their pores than in free ſpaces, and ſo much the rarer, as their pores are leſs. And this I ſuppose (with others) to be the cauſe, why light incident on thoſe bodies is refracted towards the perpendicular; […] I ſuppose the rarer æther within bodies, and then denſer without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical ſuperficies, but to grow gradually into one another; […]
  5. The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. colloquial,uncountable
    — H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness He held some friendly chat with Pabodie over the ether, and repeated his praise of the really marvelous drills that had helped him make his discovery.
  6. A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. colloquial,uncountable
    — The luminous æther of his life was not obſcured by any ſhade dark enough to be denominated a defect.
  7. Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. uncountable
    — But the moſt valuable Qualities of the ÆTHER are it's medicinal ones; it having been found by repeated Experience to be an excellent Remedy in moſt nervous Diſeaſes; particularly in Fits of all ſorts, whether Epileptic, Convulſive, Hyſteric, Hypochondriac, or Paralytic: […]
  8. Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. countable
    — M. Malaguti finds that dry chlorine, while acting in the dark upon oxacid æthers, always attacks, and in a uniform manner, the sulphuric æther which is the base of them. […] The action of potash on the compound chloridized æthers is also constant and uniform: the results are always chloride of potassium, acetate of potash, and an organic salt with a base of potash, the acid of which is that which existed in the compound chloridized æther.
  9. Starting fluid. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To viciously humiliate or insult. slang,transitive
    — The battle rapper ethered his opponent and caused him to slink away in shame.
  2. Alternative form of edder. UK,alt-of,alternative,dialectal
    — Ether and Ethers (rhyme to whether)—the operation of running a line of hazle or other flexible wands intertwiningly along the top of a hedge, to keep it more firmly within the hedge-stakes. "Mind you ether it right strong." To "bond" a hedge has the same meaning.

词形变化

ethers plural æther alternative,UK,dated,obsolete aether alternative,UK,dated,obsolete aethyr alternative,archaic ethyr alternative,archaic ethers present,singular,third-person ethering participle,present ethered participle,past ethered past ethers present,singular,third-person ethering participle,present ethered participle,past ethered past ether plural

词汇关系

衍生词
artemether crown ether decabromodiphenyl ether diether diethyl ether dimethyl ether diphenyl ether dithioether etherate ethereal ether engine Ethereum etherial etheric etherical etherification etheriform etherify etherin etherise etherize etherish etherism etherist etherization etherlike ethernet etherol etheromania etheromaniac etherous ethery ethyl ether ethyl vinyl ether glycol ether haloether hydrofluoroether iminoether lariat ether luminiferous aether methal methyl t-butyl ether methyl tert-butyl ether methyl tertiary butyl ether monoether octabromodiphenyl ether oligoether pentabromodiphenyl ether petroleum ether phenolether polyether polyetheretherketone polyether ether ketone polyetherketoneetherketoneketone polyethersulfone pyroacetic ether selenoether subether sulfur ether sulphur ether tetraether thetine thioether
相关词
aetherial aetheric ethereal etherealisation etherealization etherealise etherealize ethereality ethereally etherealness firmament welkin

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō
Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)
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Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?
Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.
Latin aethērder.
English ether
From Middle English ēther (“the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman ether and Middle French ether, ethere, aether, from Old French aether (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern French éther), or directly from its etymon Latin aethēr (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also New Latin aethēr (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”), from αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”).
The English word is cognate with Italian ether, ethera (both obsolete), etere, Middle Dutch ether (modern Dutch aether (obsolete), ether), German Äther, Ether, Portuguese éter, Spanish éter.
词源 2
From “Ether” (2001), a song by the American hip hop recording artist Nas (born 1973). According to Nas, the song, a diss track aimed at fellow artist Jay-Z (born 1969), was thus named because he was once told that ghosts and spirits do not like the fumes from ether (noun, sense 5), and he viewed the song as affecting Jay-Z in a similar way. The song contains the lines “I fuck with your soul like ether” and “That ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow”.
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