ether vs skin

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. 

skin

noun
  • A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid. 

  • The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft. 

  • The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. 

  • The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. 

  • A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program. 

  • An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game. 

  • The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. 

  • A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin. 

  • That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. 

  • A drink of whisky served hot. 

  • The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. 

  • A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. 

  • person, chap 

  • Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts. 

  • Rolling paper for cigarettes. 

verb
  • To injure the skin of. 

  • To use tricks to go past a defender. 

  • To high five. 

  • To become covered with skin. 

  • To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. 

  • To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially. 

  • To apply a skin to (a computer program). 

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