Spirit vs. Ether
Spiritnoun
The soul of a person or other creature.
Spiritnoun
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
Spiritnoun
Enthusiasm.
Spiritnoun
The manner or style of something.
Spiritnoun
A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Spiritnoun
Energy; ardour.
Spiritnoun
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
Spiritnoun
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
Spiritnoun
(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Spiritnoun
(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
Spiritnoun
Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
Spiritnoun
Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
Spiritnoun
(dyeing) stannic chloride
Spiritverb
To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
Spiritverb
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.
Spiritnoun
Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Spiritnoun
A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
Spiritnoun
Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
Spiritnoun
The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
Spiritnoun
Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
Spiritnoun
Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
Spiritnoun
Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
Spiritnoun
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
Spiritnoun
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; - often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
Spiritnoun
Intent; real meaning; - opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
Spiritnoun
Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
Spiritnoun
Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): - often in the plural.
Spiritnoun
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
Spiritnoun
A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
Spiritnoun
Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
Spiritnoun
Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
Spiritverb
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; - sometimes followed by up.
Spiritverb
To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; - often with away, or off.
Spiritnoun
the vital principle or animating force within living things
Spiritnoun
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;
Spiritnoun
a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character
Spiritnoun
any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
Spiritnoun
the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection);
Spiritnoun
the intended meaning of a communication
Spiritnoun
animation and energy in action or expression;
Spiritnoun
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind;
Spiritverb
infuse with spirit;
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person regarded as their true self and as capable of surviving physical death or separation
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person manifested as an apparition after their death; a ghost
Spiritnoun
a supernatural being
Spiritnoun
short for Holy Spirit
Spiritnoun
the prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time
Spiritnoun
a person identified with their most prominent quality or with their role in a group or movement
Spiritnoun
a person's mood or attitude
Spiritnoun
the quality of courage, energy, and determination
Spiritnoun
the real meaning or the intention behind something as opposed to its strict verbal interpretation
Spiritnoun
strong distilled alcoholic drink such as brandy, whisky, gin, or rum.
Spiritnoun
a volatile liquid, especially a fuel, prepared by distillation
Spiritnoun
a solution of volatile components extracted from something, typically by distillation or by solution in alcohol
Spiritnoun
a highly refined substance or fluid thought to govern vital phenomena.
Spiritverb
convey rapidly and secretly
Ethernoun
The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
Ethernoun
(by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
Ethernoun
(by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
Ethernoun
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).
Ethernoun
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.
Ethernoun
A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
Ethernoun
Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
Ethernoun
Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
Etherverb
To viciously humiliate or insult.
Ethernoun
A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, once supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether. It is no longer believed that such a medium is required for the transmission of electromagnetic waves; the modern use of the term is mostly a figurative term for empty space, or for literary effect, and not intended to imply the actual existence of a physical medium. However. modern cosmological theories based on quantum field theory do not rule out the possibility that the inherent energy of the vacuum is greater than zero, in which case the concept of an ether pervading the vacuum may have more than metaphoric meaning.
Ethernoun
Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
Ethernoun
A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is a powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anæsthetic. Commonly called ethyl ether to distinguish it from other ethers, and also ethyl oxide.
Ethernoun
a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
Ethernoun
the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
Ethernoun
any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
Ethernoun
a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
Ether
Ethers are a class of organic compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups. They have the general formula R–O–R′, where R and R′ represent the alkyl or aryl groups.
