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respirator
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respirator \Res"pi*ra`tor\ (r?s"p?*r?`t?r), n. [Cf. F. respirateur.] A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling harmful dusts , fumes, vapors, or gases . Respirators come in a wide range of types and sizes used by the military, private industry, and the public. Respirators range from relatively ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration [syn: inhalator ] a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases [syn: gasmask , gas helmet ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, as an aid to breathing (originally a sort of gauze mask, agent noun from respire . As "machine to provide artificial respiration" from 1929.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A device designed to allow breathe when it would otherwise be hindered, as by a medical condition or the presence of poisonous vapors.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At a recent show a motorised respirator was retailing at between £280 and £300. ▪ But many disbelieving locals have stayed behind, even as technicians in plastic suits and respirators swarm over the town. ▪ Dad shouted orders ...
Usage examples of respirator.
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There was a microphone in the OR, so that you heard everything-the clink of instruments, the rhythmic hiss of the respirator, the quiet See Appendix 111: Battlefields and Barberpoles.
They snapped a portable respirator around his chest and injected a general antivenom into his heart.
The door was shouldered inward and half a dozen soldiers, wearing respirators and full battledress, burst in.
Here the hum of an industrial-grade humidifieror maybe it was a dehumidifier, I never get that straightclicked on and off like the respirator for a culture on the critical list.
He put on the respirator, looked out at the tree-lined, gaslit streets sliding past the car.
Dan Dalgard, wearing a respirator and a jumpsuit, selected four sick monkeys for sacrifice, the ones he thought looked the sickest.
It enclosed his entire head and featured a multifunction power-optic visor, holovid camera with continuous map-revise data stream, laser communication capability, and an omnifilter respirator.
The well-to-do wore thermally adaptive clothes for the first time, which left the tonier shopping districts looking as if they had been invaded by aliens in polyester jogging suits and respirators, while the rest of us beetled down the street in bulging parkas or stuck as close as possible to the skywalks.
Instead, he lay there in his biobed, his sunken chest laboring pitifully as a respirator pumped in breath after breath, comatose but technically still alive.
Ford entered the ICU just after eight-thirty, Sunny was intubated and breathing with the help of a respirator.
Liverpool and Florencia, he stares out at the Zona Rosa from the back of a white Lada, a nanopore Swiss respirator chafing his freshly shaven chin.
All around Hamid-Jones, tents were going up with an efficiency that rivaled that of his lanyard-triggered sports model, the vast herd was being turned out to its cyanophytic pasture, and women whose leather respirators served as their veils milked camels and goats.
The respirator went up and down, inflating the eel's air bladder as it pumped bloody froth out of Mason's lungs.
A respirator helped him breathe in the heavy air as he floated in the neutral-buoyancy tank.