bleed vs ether

bleed

noun
  • The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids. 

  • The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. 

  • The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game. 

  • An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia. 

  • A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet). 

  • A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing. 

verb
  • To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood. 

  • To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin. 

  • To lose money. 

  • To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose. 

  • To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper. 

  • To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied. 

  • To steadily lose (something vital). 

  • To take large amounts of money from. 

  • To lose blood through an injured blood vessel. 

  • To let or draw blood from. 

  • To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids. 

  • To lose sap, gum, or juice. 

  • To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision. 

ether

noun
  • Starting fluid. 

  • The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. 

  • Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. 

  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • 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. 

  • 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). 

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

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