ether vs pant

ether

noun
  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

pant

noun
  • A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation. 

  • Eager longing. 

  • Of or relating to pants. 

  • Any public drinking fountain. 

  • A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). 

verb
  • Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate. 

  • To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc. 

  • To sigh; to flutter; to languish. 

  • To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. 

  • To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. 

  • To heave, as the breast. 

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