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alcohol | ethe |

As nouns the difference between alcohol and ethe

is that alcohol is while ethe is .

As an adjective ethe is

(obsolete) easy.

alcohol

English

(wikipedia alcohol)

Noun

  • (organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).
  • (uncountable) An intoxicating beverage made by the fermentation of sugar or sugar-containing material.
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  • (obsolete) Any very fine powder.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * -holic * -holism * -ol * alcohol abuse * alcoholic * alcoholism * low-alcohol * non-alcoholic * nonalcoholic

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    ethe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • * 1892 : Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic , p72
    • And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
  • * 1942 : International Universities Press, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology , p85
    • The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
  • * 2003 : Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition , p76
    • …it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe .

    Etymology 2

    See (eath).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) easy
  • * 1579 , , "The Shepheardes Calender", The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4 , Charles C. Little and James Brown (1839), page 330:
    • Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe  ; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.

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