ether vs spit

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). 

spit

verb
  • To utter (something) violently. 

  • To dig, to spade. 

  • To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit. 

  • To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough. 

  • To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. 

  • To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. 

  • To rap, to utter. 

  • To plant (something) using a spade. 

  • (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth. 

  • To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth. 

  • To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat. 

  • To rain or snow slightly. 

noun
  • An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow. 

  • Synonym of slam (“card game”) 

  • A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire. 

  • A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image). 

  • A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. 

  • Saliva, especially when expectorated. 

  • The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful. 

  • The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade. 

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