| 单词 | ether |
| 释义 | ether (once / 703 pages) 1n 2n Ether is a chemical that used to be a common anesthetic that you inhaled before undergoing surgery. In most countries, doctors have replaced it with less flammable, safer drugs. The chemical ether is a colorless liquid that's still used as an anesthetic in some developing countries and as an industrial solvent. The Latin root is aether, which means "the upper pure, bright air". Ether was originally a scientific term for what 19th century physicists called "the fifth element," a substance that was said to fill all space and make up all bodies. In modern times, ether has come to be a literary term that refers to the sky. WORD FAMILYether: ethereal, etherise, etherize, ethers+/ethereal: etherealize, ethereally, etherialise/etherealize: etherealized, etherealizes, etherealizing/etherialise: etherialised/etherise: etherised/etherize: etherized, etherizing USAGE EXAMPLESShe lives on, unchallenged, in the cultural ether. Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) He fell backward, with his forward progress somewhere in the ether. Washington Post(Nov 27, 2016) “The music stirringly navigates the ether between heaven and earth,” Post critic Peter Marks wrote when the show premiered. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1 1n any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom Hyper organic compound any compound of carbon and another element or a radical 2n a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether Ethrane, enflurane a nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic inhalation anaesthetic, inhalation anesthetic, inhalation general anaesthetic, inhalation general anesthetic a gas that produces general anesthesia when inhaled 1n a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves Syn|Hyper aether medium an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication 2n the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies Syn|Hyper quintessence element one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe |
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