What's the difference between ethel and ether?

Ethel


Definition:

  • (a.) Noble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
  • (2) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
  • (3) The section began with 12 charter members headed by Chairman Pro Tem Col. Ethel Kovach.
  • (4) Clothes chain Ethel Austin, home furnishings stores Texstyle World and menswear group Ciro Citterio all subsequently hit trouble, although their problems occurred some time after Hilco's involvement.
  • (5) Wodehouse and Ethel had little money when they married, but the letters record them being all the happier for their makeshift existence together.
  • (6) The Charleston County coroner, Rae Wooten, identified the other victims of the attack, as Reverend DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70, and her cousin Susie Jackson, 87, both longtime members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church.
  • (7) During this period, according to a US justice department memo, Bradlee promulgated CIA-directed European propaganda urging the controversial execution of the convicted American spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
  • (8) Wodehouse's own romantic life was sealed by a 1914 meeting with a twice-widowed actress and dancer, Ethel Wayman .
  • (9) Just before 8am, Ethel Guedj dropped off two of her sons, aged 15 and 11, at the Ozar Hatorah private Jewish secondary school in a quiet residential street of north east Toulouse.
  • (10) Other stage successes followed: Cole Porter's Red, Hot And Blue, with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, and the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, in which he sang I Can't Get Started With You to chorus girl Eve Arden.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Methyl Ethel – Twilight.
  • (12) Romero, Ethel M. (Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina), and Rodolfo M. Brenner.
  • (13) The year was 1939. Letters from Wodehouse and Ethel give details of the moment when their tranquil Le Touquet life was shattered as invading Germans surrounded their house.
  • (14) In marrying Ethel, Wodehouse not only gained a wife.
  • (15) Ethel, he reported, was "very pro-British", while Wodehouse was "entirely childlike and pacifist".
  • (16) Russell was born in Southampton to Ethel and Henry, a shoe-shop owner.
  • (17) Pinky, a 1949 race drama about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, was another exception, garnering a best supporting nomination for Ethel Waters.
  • (18) After West Side Story , he was in line to write the music for Gypsy , but Ethel Merman thought him too green, and it went to Jule Styne.
  • (19) Ethel has quite the sweetest daughter, Leonora, so I suspect I shall be staying out here for a little while longer, especially as I have to write another 15 novels by the end of next year.
  • (20) July Discount retailer Ethel Austin, health food company Julian Graves.

Ether


Definition:

  • (n.) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, 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.
  • (n.) Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
  • (n.) 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 powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
  • (n.) Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.

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.

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