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Substantiivi

1. (uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
2. (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether.
3. (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
4. (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
5. (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
6. (uncountable, colloquial) 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.
7. (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
8. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
9. (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
10. (uncountable) Starting fluid.

Verbi

1. (transitive, slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.
2. (UK dialectal) Alternative form of edder.