ether vs read

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). 

read

verb
  • To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way. 

  • To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.). 

  • To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection. 

  • To read work(s) written by (a named author). 

  • Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term. 

  • To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 

  • To consist of certain text. 

  • Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan 

  • To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) 

  • To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. 

  • To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks. 

  • To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal). 

  • Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way. 

  • To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text. 

  • To recognise (someone) as being transgender. 

  • To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from. 

noun
  • A person's interpretation or impression of something. 

  • Something to be read; a written work. 

  • A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data. 

  • The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string 

  • An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”). 

How often have the words ether and read occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )