ether
/ˈiːθər/
noun
- A clear liquid used in the past as an anesthetic to make people unconscious during surgery.
- The smell of ether filled the old operating room.
- Before modern anesthetics, doctors used ether to put patients to sleep for operations.
- Ether was first used as a surgical anesthetic in the 1840s.
- In physics, a substance once believed to fill all space and carry light waves; now replaced by modern theories.
- The idea of ether was abandoned after Einstein's theory of relativity.
- Nineteenth-century scientists thought light traveled through a substance called ether.
- Experiments failed to detect the ether, leading to new ideas about space.
- A chemical compound in which an oxygen atom connects two carbon groups, often used as a solvent.
- Diethyl ether is a common solvent in chemistry labs.
- The chemist carefully handled the volatile ether in a fume hood.
- Ethers are used in making perfumes and pharmaceuticals.
- In informal use, the air or the sky, especially as a medium for radio or electronic signals.
- The radio station's signal travels through the ether to reach listeners.
- Messages seemed to disappear into the ether without a reply.
- He felt his words were lost in the ether of the internet.