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ether

How to use ether in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ether.

Editorial note

Let me throw out a number for sales picked out of the ether: $50 million in a year.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ether gathered in one view.

noun

the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

noun

any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom

noun

a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ether.

noun

the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

noun

any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom

noun

a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

noun

a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic

Example sentences

1

Let me throw out a number for sales picked out of the ether: $50 million in a year.

2

You can get servers that have 4 ether ports that you can bond in pairs to different switches.

3

When your mortgage company folds, the titles don't vanish into the ether.

4

No tools needed: `arp -a` followed by `sudo ifconfig en0 ether $macaddress` should be enough.

5

I guess that ether means the Opera implementation is wrong and the code should work fine, or Google didn't test this as fully as they should have done

6

" That question does a good job dividing people into a group that in 5 years time will ether have 5 years of experience or 1 year of experience repeated 5 times.

7

" headlines, this ordeal and their pathetic response will slip into the forgotten-ether of low-impact data leaks.

8

For example, is requesting cell site location data like tracking a beeper in a can of ether on a public highway or like a pen register?

9

I think it's much more likely that people will look upon current defenders of "good old fashioned AI" like they now do upon people who still looked for ether after Einstein's discoveries.

10

>passw0rd may be in the dictionary, but is p4ssword, or pa$$word?I'm guessing yes. If I were building a dictionary, I would add every password that's been dumped from sites like Gawker, etc. With hundreds of thousands of passwords floating around in the ether, you can quite quickly cover common leetifications.

11

Wikipedia is a starting point for synfuels in general [6]; George Olah advocates a methanol/dimethyl ether economy using CO2 recycled from air [7].

12

I can't cancel it because it's actually offered by another company Domains By Proxy, but they won't let me log in because the account was magically setup using some bogus credentials and information which they got from the ether or something.

13

Speaking only with regards to engineering marketing outcomes: allowing people to trivially conjure Bitcoins out of the ether early in the lifecycle, then making them increasingly dear, is a good way to engineer having a base of committed evangelists.

14

After years of debate and delay on a radio law, both houses jumped to pass a December 1926 resolution stating that no private rights to ether would be recognized as valid, mandating that broadcasters immediately sign waivers relinquishing all rights, and disclaiming any vested interests.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ether in a sentence?

Let me throw out a number for sales picked out of the ether: $50 million in a year.

What does ether mean?

the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

What part of speech is ether?

ether is commonly used as noun.