burn vs ether

burn

verb
  • To insult or defeat. 

  • To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat. 

  • In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. 

  • To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage. 

  • In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card. 

  • To be consumed by fire, or in flames. 

  • To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge). 

  • To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image. 

  • To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. 

  • To sunburn. 

  • To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does. 

  • To overheat so as to make unusable. 

  • To accidentally touch a moving stone. 

  • To blackmail. 

  • To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star. 

  • To compromise (an agent's cover story). 

  • To discard. 

  • To waste (time); to waste money or other resources. 

  • To cause to be consumed by fire. 

  • To betray. 

  • To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize. 

  • To shoot someone with a firearm. 

  • To become overheated to the point of being unusable. 

  • To cauterize. 

  • To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. 

noun
  • Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid. 

  • Tobacco. 

  • The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. 

  • An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult). 

  • The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course. 

  • A stream. 

  • A sensation resembling such an injury. 

  • The act of burning something with fire. 

  • A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. 

  • An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult. 

  • The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking. 

  • A disease in vegetables; brand. 

ether

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

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

  • Starting fluid. 

  • 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). 

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