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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbonmonoxide draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, after dark the plants and algae stop producing oxygen and instead use it to respire . ▪ However, many modern organisms respire without the aid of oxygen; that is, are anaerobic. ▪ Plants photosynthesise during the day ...
Wikipedia
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" Respire " is one of Mickey 3D 's most popular songs. Released in March 2003, it met success in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Like many French rock songs the topic is about a controversial and realistic subject, in this case, the environment and its ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French respirer (12c.), from Latin respirare "breathe again, breathe in and out," from re- "again" (see re- ) + spirare "to breathe" (see spirit (n.)). Related: Respired ; respiring .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) rest, respite. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To breathe in and breathe out. 2 (context intransitive English) To engage in the process of respiration. 3 (context intransitive English) To recover one's breath or breathe ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respire \Re*spire"\, v. t. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe. A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while. --Byron. To breathe out; to exhale. [R.] --B. Jonson.
Usage examples of respire.
Boardwalks have been built out into the bay so that visitors can stroll over the water to get a good look at the stromatolites, quietly respiring just beneath the surface.
Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.
Boardwalks have been built out into the bay so that visitors can stroll over the water to get a good look at the stromatolites, quietly respiring just beneath the surface.
They respire through booklungs, which are less efficient than yours," the carried Korozhet explained.
The basis behind decompression sickness, or what is known as the bends, is that under normal air pressure the body respires most of its excess nitrogen.
Fungi, the group that includes mushrooms, molds, mildews, yeasts, and puffballs, were nearly always treated as botanical objects, though in fact almost nothing about them—how they reproduce and respire, how they build themselves—matches anything in the plant world.
Say he stays eleven minutes, and jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths.
For some seconds she lay as if stricken, while her mate, hard respiring, drained off his drink and flung away the can.
But her final behavior mystified me, and behind the turmoil of my heart stood a stiller but impenetrabler mystery, that I had felt briefly in my arms: what was it that looked through the optics of that respiring female organism and said "I love you"?
But I stood in the middle of my room doing absolutely nothing except respiring, and, of course, keeping other normal processes going.
This is the photosynthetic process that has evolved spontaneously billions of years ago on Earth, releasing the free oxygen that made the evolution of respiring organisms possible.
Nobody's been respiring into it but us lads, and there aren't enough of us to matter.
But now there approached a season when for months there would be no light but that of the Moon and stars, useless for growth: If the plants had kept on growing and respiring they would have burned up their energy store.