different between atmosphere vs ether

English

Alternative forms

• atmosphære (archaic)

Etymology

From French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ????? (atmós, “steam”) + Ancient Greek ?????? (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- +? -sphere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æt.m?s?f??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ætm?s?f??/

Noun

atmosphere (countable and uncountable, plural atmospheres)

1. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.

   Coordinate terms: hydrosphere, biosphere

   Meronyms: see Thesaurus:atmosphere

2. The air in a particular place.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

3. (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.

   Synonyms: air, ambiance, feeling, mood

4. A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm)
5. (television, film, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.

Related terms

• atmospheric
• atmospherics

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ambiance, ambience
• mood

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??/
• Rhymes: -i???(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?ther (“the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman ether and Middle French ether, ethere, aether, from Old French aether (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space”) (modern French éther), or directly from its etymon Latin aeth?r (“highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity”) (note also New Latin aeth?r (“chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether”)), from Ancient Greek ????? (aith?r, “purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light”), from ???? (aíth?, “to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn; fire”).

The English word is cognate with Italian ether, ethera (both obsolete), etere, Middle Dutch ether (modern Dutch aether (obsolete), ether), Middle High German ?ther (modern German aether, ether (obsolete), Äther), Portuguese éter, Spanish éter.

Noun

ether (countable and uncountable, plural ethers)

1. (uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
   1. (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
   2. (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
2. (uncountable, physics, historical) 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).
3. (uncountable, colloquial) 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.
4. (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
5. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
6. (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.

Alternative forms

• æther, aether (Britain, dated, obsolete in chemistry)
• aethyr, ethyr (archaic)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (etereu)

Translations

Etymology 2

From “Ether” (2001), a song by the American hip hop recording artist Nas (born 1973). According to Nas, the song, a diss track aimed at fellow artist Jay-Z (born 1969), was thus named because he was once told that ghosts and spirits do not like the fumes from ether (noun, sense 5), and he viewed the song as affecting Jay-Z in a similar way. The song contains the lines “I fuck with your soul like ether” and “That ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow”.

Verb

ether (third-person singular simple present ethers, present participle ethering, simple past and past participle ethered)

1. (transitive, slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abash

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

ether (plural ether)

1. (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether

References

Further reading

• aether (classical element) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• aether (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ether on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ether (song) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ehret, Reeth, rethe, theer, there, three

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ether, from Latin aeth?r, from Ancient Greek ????? (aith?r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ether
• Rhymes: -e?t?r
• Homophone: eter

Noun

ether m (plural ethers)

1. (broadcasting, uncountable) air, broadcasting

2. (organic chemistry) ether (organic compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
3. (historical) ether (fifth element of Aristotelian natural philosophy, supposed to be the building block of the heavens)

   Synonym: kwintessens

4. (historical, physics) ether (luminiferous aether, medium in which electromagnetic waves were supposed to occur)

Derived terms

• etherisch
• etherpiraat
• etherpiraterij

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eter
• ? Japanese: ???? (?teru)

Anagrams

• heter

Portuguese

Noun

ether m (plural etheres)

1. Obsolete spelling of éter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).