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Ether vs Mether - What's the difference?

ether | mether |

As nouns the difference between ether and mether

is that ether is ether while mether is (historical|ireland) a communal drinking vessel used in gaelic times for drinking mead it had squared sides and one drank from a corner also, a trophy in this shape.

ether

English

(wikipedia ether)

Alternative forms

* aether * (dated British spelling) * aethyr, ethyr (archaic spellings)

Noun

  • (organic compound, countable) A compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
  • (organic compound, uncountable) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), a compound used as an early anaesthetic.
  • (ancient philosophy, and, alchemy, uncountable) A classical physical element, considered as prevalent in the heavens and inaccessible to humans. In some versions of alchemy, this was the fifth element in addition to air, earth, fire and water.
  • (archaic, physics, uncountable) A substance (aether ) once thought to fill all space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy (disproved by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • The sky or heavens; the upper air.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ether")

    Derived terms

    * crown ether * lariat ether * petroleum ether * pyroacetic ether * sulfur ether, sulphur ether

    Verb

    (slang) To viciously insult.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-02-26, magazine=(Deadspin)
    • , title= HS Coach Gets Ethered By Girlfriend On FB, Resigns Amid Investigation }}

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "ether")

    Anagrams

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    mether

    English

    (Yan Tan Tethera)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) numerals.

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (qualifier)

    Cardinal numeral

    (head)
  • (dialect) Four in the old counting system of Northern England.
    • Derived terms
    * mether-a-dick * mether-a-bumfit

    Etymology 2

    Related to (m), (m)

    Alternative forms

    * medar, meather

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, Ireland) A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape.
  • * 1912 James Henry Cousins, "The Loving Cup" I ( Etain the Beloved and Other Poems , p.84) (Maunsel & Co):
    • I raise to you, O Queen, this Loving Cup, this Mether ,
    Filled with Mead
    Made from honey of the heather
  • * 1912 "Our Lady Correspondent" "Fashions at Leopardstown" The Irish Times 27 August 1912, p.8:
    • Lord Herbert and Mr. Luke White were to be seen on the roof pouring water down the chimney, while the Marchioness of Ormonde was seen carrying the Regimental Cup (the silver Irish mether to be competed for) from the scene of the fire.

    References

    * P. W. Joyce A Social History of Ancient Ireland (Longmans, Green, and Co; 1903) Vol.2 Chap.XX p.75 * electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (RIA) M col.117 lin.43 English cardinal numbers ----