Mormon vs Ether - What's the difference?
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The ancient American prophet of Mormon theology who compiled the Book of Mormon.
(originally, derogatory) A person who views as a prophet, and considers the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price to be holy.
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Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.
(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).
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As a adjective mormon
is mormon.As a noun ether is
(organic compound|countable) a compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.As a verb ether is
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English
(wikipedia Mormon)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* MormonismNoun
(en noun)- That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border.
Coordinate terms
*Synonyms
* Latter-day Saint, LDSDerived terms
* Jack Mormon * Molly Mormon ((Molly Mormon))Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* Mormon cricketether
English
(wikipedia ether)Alternative forms
* aether * (dated British spelling) * aethyr, ethyr (archaic spellings)Noun
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.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ether")Derived terms
* crown ether * lariat ether * petroleum ether * pyroacetic ether * sulfur ether, sulphur etherVerb
(slang) To viciously insult.HS Coach Gets Ethered By Girlfriend On FB, Resigns Amid Investigation}}