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breather

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Breather may refer to: Breather - In physics, a breather is a nonlinear wave in which energy concentrates in a localized and oscillatory fashion Breather (company) - An Airbnb office space company Other uses : I, the Breather , American metalcore band Breather ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES heavy breather COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE heavy ▪ She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather . ■ VERB take ▪ He was not digging at all now but taking a breather ...

Usage examples of breather.

Shortly before noon, when Sharn was taking a breather with Bles and Nukalavee in a makeshift command post well supplied with liberated beer, a Firvulag scout arrived with important news.

Joe Sparger, who had come up for a breather on to the wings of the bridge, could see Trevellion striding from side to side of the bridge in an effort to see the screwflagman on the roof of the helicopter hangar.

It was unquestionably a water hex creature, but large and with some weight, and it clearly was able to withstand being out of the water, although it had a breather wrapped around where the gills probably were, making it look like it was wearing giant earmuffs, and it was in one of the pools but clearly uncomfortable in it.

We even had some sentient chlorine and methane breathers in our multi-environmental zoos.

Though any interior room could be warded and drained for use by air breathers, cephalids like Llawan lived in the submerged chambers constructed on the canyon walls.

Before she could stop herself, Veza cursed him out loud like the air breathers she spent so much time with.

Its insides were vast and hollow, with compartments that could accommodate air breathers as well as sea creatures.

Of course these two innocent-looking breathers still might be agents of the enemy.

I spent mingling with the breathers in several marketplaces of suburban Rome.

In his hectic passage he stumbled against the machine the enemy breathers had used to break in the apartment door.

Among breathers at that time only Cesare and Lucrezia, and perhaps their father, shared my secret.

If the breathers should assault your door again, have no hesitation in using the gun you now possess.

His ears were quite good enough to bring him the faint sounds from beyond the door, of a pair of breathers who had begun to creep about again like frightened mice.

But Maule, standing above and behind him, gripping him with immovable hands, cried out, in a language none of the breathers could understand, such words as seemed to prevent it.

But now it formed a subterranean hideout, cut off virtually completely from the surface as far as access by breathers was concerned.