breathing

[Breath·ing]

The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

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Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

Noun
the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

Adjective
passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Breathe

n.
Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

n.
Air in gentle motion.

n.
Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.

n.
Aspiration; secret prayer.

n.
Exercising; promotion of respiration.

n.
Utterance; communication or publicity by words.

n.
Breathing place; vent.

n.
Stop; pause; delay.

n.
Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.

n.
A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.


Breathing

Breath"ing , n. 1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
Subject to a difficulty of breathing.
2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson. 5. Exercising; promotion of respiration.
Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip.
6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.
7. Breathing place; vent. Dryden. 8. Stop; pause; delay.
You shake the head at so long a breathing.
9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. 10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. Breathing place. (a) A pause. "That c'91sura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse." Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. -- Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. -- Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. -- Rough breathing (spiritus asper) . See 2d Asper, n. -- Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai).

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

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Usage Examples

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

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