(a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
(n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
(n.) A native of China.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
(4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
(5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
(6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
(8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
(9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
(10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
(11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
(12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
(13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
(14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
(15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
(16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
(17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
(18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
(20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.
Ethereal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
(a.) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(4) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
(5) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
(6) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(7) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(8) It was presumed that thymohydroquinone is excreted as ethereal sulfuric acid conjugate in man.
(9) The authors have carried out an experimental study of an insufficiently explored problem of the diffusion capacity of the ethers of cholesterol through the skin and the possibility of their intra-articular transport with cholesterol ether of the oleic acid marked 1,2(3)H taken as an example.
(10) Chelation of extracellular calcium with ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N',N' tetraacetic acid (EGTA) did not abolish the increase in calcium.
(11) The UE and KE fractions were then separated by silicic acid column chromatography with a stepwise elution method using ether-hexane.
(12) The enzyme appears to be highly specific since D-dopachrome, alpha-methyldopachrome, dopaminochrome, adrenochrome methyl ether and deoxyadrenochrome are not substrates.
(13) After introduction of surgical anesthesia with general agents such as ether and chloroform, a large number of deaths due to anesthetic toxicity were reported.
(14) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(15) When the enzyme is inactivated with 16alpha-[2-3H]bromoacetoxyestradiol 3-methyl ether, amino acid analysis of acid hydrolysates reveals 3-carboxymethylhistidine and 1,3-dicarboxymethylhistidine.
(16) In addition these methods of estrogen treatment potentiated the ether-induced increase in plasma prolactin in the morning (9.00-11.00) beginning on week 2 and continuing for 3-8 weeks.
(17) Studies of structure-transacylation relationships for a series of acylhydroxamic acids of chlorinated biphenyl ethers and their related compounds by rat liver N-arylacylhydroxamic acid-dependent N-acyltransferase (AHNAT) are described.
(18) The biologically inactive phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate methyl ether (10 nM) had no effect on 45Ca2+ uptake.
(19) Steroids were extracted with ethyl ether, and cortisol was purified by gel column chromatography prior to assay.
(20) The method comprised adsorption on Extrelut column from alkaline plasma, elution with diethyl ether-methylene chloride, evaporation in the presence of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and injection of the acid solution onto a mu Bondapak C18 column, using acetonitrile-0.025 M potassium dihydrogenphosphate as mobile phase and ultraviolet detection at 210 nm.