dope vs ether

dope

noun
  • An absorbent material used to hold a liquid. 

  • Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc. 

  • Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. 

  • A stupid person. 

  • Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. 

  • Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface. 

  • Dessert topping. 

  • Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target. 

verb
  • To affect with drugs. 

  • To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions. 

  • To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). 

  • To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). 

adj
  • Amazing; cool. 

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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