ether vs jet

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. 

jet

noun
  • A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid. 

  • A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc. 

  • A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers. 

  • A turbine. 

  • The colour of jet coal, deep grey. 

  • A rocket engine. 

  • A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery. 

  • A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air. 

  • A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon. 

verb
  • To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out. 

  • To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion 

  • To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around 

  • To leave; depart. 

  • To spray with liquid from a container. 

  • To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. 

  • To spray out of a container. 

  • To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet 

  • To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. 

adj
  • Propelled by turbine engines. 

  • Very dark black in colour. 

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