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n. The act or process of respiration.

n. A single breath.

n. The time required to take one's breath.

n. Either of two marks, the rough breathing ( ̔ ) and the smooth breathing ( ̓ ), used in Greek to indicate presence or absence of aspiration.

n. The presence or absence of aspiration indicated by either of these marks.

v. Present participle of breathe.

n. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.

n. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.

n. Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.

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

n. Air in gentle motion.

n. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

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.

n. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air: as,“a difficulty of breathing,”

n. Aspiration; secret prayer or desire.

n. Aërial motion; respiratory action.

n. Figuratively, a gentle influence or operation; inspiration:as, the breathings of the Spirit.

n. A breathing-place; a vent.

n. Physical exercise, from the fact that it calls the lungs into free play: as, the Oxford crew took their breathings every morning at ten.

n. Utterance; words.

n. Time taken to recover breath; hence, a stop; a delay.

n. In grammar, aspiration or its absence, or a sign indicating it.

adj. passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination

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

"It must not be supposed that a singer's breathing is something strange or complex, for it is nothing more than _an amplification of normal, healthy breathing_."

sweet-breathed   

rest    utterance    aspirate    abdominal breathing    mouth breathing    breathing capacity    cheyne-stokes breathing   

respiration    inspiration    aspiration    exercising    utterance    vent    stop    pause    delay    living   

breathe   

sheathing    teething