Crossword clues for breather
breather
- Brief break
- Timeout
- A short respite
- Air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes
- Permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time
- Easy fight
- Swimmer, about to get in short rest
- Short rest break
- Almost destroy the right lung
- Rest of Belgium somewhat encapsulating Spain
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breather \Breath"er\, n.
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One who breathes. Hence:
One who lives.
One who utters.
One who animates or inspires.
That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
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a pause to catch one's breath, or for some other form of rest or refreshment; -- often used in the phrase
to take a breather, i.e. to pause for refreshment.
a vent in a container to allow equalization of internal and external pressure.
an air intake pipe to provide air to machinery or people submerged or otherwise sealed off from the outside.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a living creature, one who breathes," agent noun from breathe. Meaning "spell of exercise to stimulate breathing" is from 1836; that of "a rest to recover breath" is from 1901.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something or someone that breathes. 2 A short break; a rest or respite. 3 (context physics English) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice. 4 (context colloquial dated English) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
WordNet
n. a short respite [syn: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time]
air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time [syn: snorkel, schnorkel, schnorchel, snorkel breather]
Wikipedia
In physics, a breather is a nonlinear wave in which energy concentrates in a localized and oscillatory fashion. This contradicts with the expectations derived from the corresponding linear system for infinitesimal amplitudes, which tends towards an even distribution of initially localized energy.
A discrete breather is a breather solution on a nonlinear lattice.
The term breather originates from the characteristic that most breathers are localized in space and oscillate ( breathe) in time. But also the opposite situation: oscillations in space and localized in time, is denoted as a breather.
Breather is a company that facilitates transactions between consumers and people renting out livable space. The company promotes itself as a way to find an environment to rest outside of your home or office. The Next Web referred to it as the "Uber for private workspaces."
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 switch, international gap in railway to allow for track expansion
- Breather Resist, American hardcore punk band
- Breather Life, album by American rapper Krazy
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.