A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
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.
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).
To viciously humiliate or insult.
The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
A specific way of performing a movement.
A quantic.
A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
Level of performance.
Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
A window or dialogue box.
Characteristics not involving atomic components.
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
The den or home of a hare.
An infraspecific rank.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
To constitute, to compose, to make up.
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
To take shape.