bed vs ether

bed

noun
  • A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. 

  • Marriage. 

  • The taut surface of a trampoline. 

  • Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire. 

  • The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. 

  • The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. 

  • Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. 

  • Sexual activity. 

  • A garden plot. 

  • A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. 

  • A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks. 

  • The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. 

  • An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found. 

  • The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. 

  • A course of stone or brick in a wall. 

  • Time spent in a bed. 

  • A deposit of ore, coal, etc. 

  • A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. 

  • A prepared spot in which to spend the night. 

  • The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. 

  • The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned. 

  • The horizontal surface of a building stone. 

  • The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. 

  • One's place of sleep or rest. 

  • A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet. 

verb
  • To settle, as machinery. 

  • To go to bed. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. 

  • To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 

  • To furnish with a bed or bedding. 

  • To set out (plants) in a garden bed. 

  • To place in a bed. 

  • To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed. 

  • To put oneself to sleep. 

  • To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement. 

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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