ether vs tone

ether

noun
  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

tone

noun
  • The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.). 

  • The quality of being respectable or admirable. 

  • The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese. 

  • The manner in which speech or writing is expressed. 

  • The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice. 

  • A specific pitch. 

  • (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. 

  • The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. 

  • a gun 

  • The shade or quality of a colour. 

  • The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours. 

  • The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus. 

  • (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. 

  • Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli. 

verb
  • to change the colour of 

  • to give a particular tone to 

  • to utter with an affected tone. 

  • to make (something) firmer 

pron
  • the one (of two) 

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