Ether Synonyms

ēthər
A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. air
  2. anesthetic
  3. atmosphere
  4. ethoxyethane
  5. aether
  6. compound
  7. element
  8. divinyl ether
  9. gas
  10. heavens
  11. vinyl ether
  12. skies
  13. sky
  14. solvent
  15. diethyl-ether
  16. ethyl-ether
The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. quintessence

Words Related to Ether

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. diethyl
  2. luminiferous
  3. vapor
  4. monomethyl
  5. glycidyl
  6. diphenyl
  7. gaseous
  8. vapour

Ether Sentence Examples

  • The result, was in Helmholtz's words, to establish beyond doubt that ordinary light consists of electrical vibrations in an all-pervading ether which possesses the properties of an insulator and of a magnetic medium.

  • It is readily soluble in alcohol, ether and water.

  • Maxwell explained electric and magnetic forces, not by the action at a distance assumed by the earlier mathematicians, but by stresses in a medium filling all space, and possessing qualities like those attributed to the old luminiferous ether.

  • There are certainly at least two resins in the powder (which is known officially as Podophylli resina), one of them being soluble and the other insoluble in ether.

  • It dissolves readily in water and alcohol in all proportions, but is insoluble in ether.

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