Aether vs. Nether

Aether vs. Nether — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Aether and Nether

Aethernoun

personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and Night or of Chaos and Darkness

Netheradjective

Lower; under.

The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.

Aethernoun

a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

Netheradjective

Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.

The nether regions.

Netheradverb

Down; downward.

Netheradverb

Low; low down.

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Netherverb

To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.

Netherverb

To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.

Netherverb

To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.

Netherverb

To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.

Netherverb

To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.

Nethernoun

Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.

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Nethernoun

(mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Netheradjective

lower;

gnawed his nether lip

Netheradjective

of the underworld;

nether regions

Netheradjective

located below or beneath something else;

nether garmentsthe under parts of a machine