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breathing
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" Breathing " is a single by Kate Bush , the first cut from her 1980 album Never for Ever , with backing vocals by Roy Harper . The single was issued on 14 April 1980, four months before the album was released, and reached number 16 in the UK charts , remaining ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breathe \Breathe\ (br[=e th]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Breathed (br[=e th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing .] [From Breath .] To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. ``I am in health, I breathe.'' --Shak. Breathes there a man with soul ...
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n. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: external respiration , respiration , ventilation ]
Usage examples of breathing.
They were working their way up the mountain slope above Abney, in a hurry and breathing hard, hoping they and the others could weave a net tight enough to catch a north-moving GPS and whatever or whoever might be carrying it.
A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.
Yuuzhan Vong warrior casually walked out of the compound, wearing his starfish breathing adaptor, for he could not bring himself to trust the mechanical breathing apparatus of the enviro-suits.
You must know that all my earlier love-songs were the breathings of ardent passion, and though it might have been easy in aftertimes to have given them a polish, yet that polish, to me, whose they were, and who perhaps alone cared for them, would have defaced the legend of my heart, which was so faithfully inscribed on them.
Selby agrees that both were near death as could be whilst still breathing!
Grabbing ahold of the back of his hair, she kept his head firmly in place and jammed the breathing regulator into his mouth, He was forced to breathe.
Icefire dissipated, and the twisting coronal glow around the edge-effect airfoils faded away, and Melinda started breathing again as she looked it over.
They had noticed that, whereas everyone else had seven apertures, for sight, hearing, eating, breathing and so on, Chaos had none.
Malenfant felt lifted, exhilarated -- even giddy, he thought, anoxic perhaps, and he made sure he kept his breathing deep and even, making the most of the thin air.
The heavy arhythmia of her breathing mixed with the low sounds of his sure motions as he lit the candle beside her bed and then lit the wall sconces with their brilliant mirror backing.
Snaker came in with an armload, shedding bark and snow and breathing steam.
Before retiring for the night the major and Truman Flagg cautiously approached the tool-house, and, listening at its single open window, which was merely a slit cut through the logs at the back to serve as a loop-hole for musketry, plainly heard the heavy breathing that assured them of the safety of the prisoners.
Diarrhea usually attends this complaint, together with difficult breathing, loss of strength, gradual decline, fever, diminution of vital forces, and finally death.
Iki, breathing every now and then a long quivering sigh and forgetting to breathe betweenwhiles, held on tightly with both hands.
In addition, bipedalism also changed the pattern of breathing, which improved the quality of sound.