What is "breathing"

Breathe \Breathe\ (br[=e][th]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Breathed (br[=e][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing.] [From Breath.]

1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. ``I am in health, I breathe.''
   --Shak.

   Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
   --Sir W. Scott [The Lay of the Last Minstrel].

2. To take breath; to rest from action.

   Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
   --Shak.

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

   The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
   --Shak.

   There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
   --Byron.

Breathing \Breath"ing\, n.

1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

   Subject to a difficulty of breathing.
   --Melmoth.

2. Air in gentle motion.

3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.

4. Aspiration; secret prayer. ``Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state.''
   --Tillotson.

5. Exercising; promotion of respiration.

   Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip.
   --Shak.

6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.

   I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.
   --Shak.

7. Breathing place; vent.
   --Dryden.

8. Stop; pause; delay.

   You shake the head at so long a breathing.
   --Shak.

9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.

10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. Breathing place.

    1. A pause. ``That c[ae]sura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse.''
       --Sir P. Sidney.

    2. A vent.

       Breathing time, pause; relaxation.
       --Bp. Hall.

       Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time.
       --Shak.

       Rough breathing ( spiritus asper) ([spasp]). See 2d Asper, n.

       Smooth breathing ( spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai).

n. 1 The act of respiration; a single instance of this. 2 A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof. 3 (context archaic English) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time. 4 Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration. 5 Aspiration; secret prayer. vb. (present participle of breathe English)

adj. passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone" [syn: eupneic, eupnoeic] [ant: breathless]

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]

Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs or oxygen through other breathing organs.

Breathing may also refer to:

• Breathing (film), a 2011 Austrian art-house film
• Breathing (lens), an effect in some photographic lenses
• Breathing (memorial sculpture), a memorial sculpture in London
• Pre-echo or breathing, a digital audio compression artifact
• One of two Greek diacritics:
  • Rough breathing, which represents h
  • Smooth breathing, which represents the absence of h
• Breathing, aeration of wine, as by use of a decanter

Breathing refers to the shifting of angle of view of a lens when changing the focus. Some (often higher quality) lenses are designed to lessen the degree of this effect. Lens breathing does not prevent one from racking focus or following focus with this lens, but it lessens the desirability of any type of focus adjustment, since it noticeably changes the composition of the shot. This is not to be confused with the suction and expulsion of air from within the lens as its internal volume changes.

"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 in the charts for seven weeks. It was the first single by Bush to feature a non-LP track on its B-side, "The Empty Bullring".

"Breathing" is a song by American alternative rock band Lifehouse. It is the third single released from their debut studio album No Name Face (2000).

Breathing (呼吸樂隊 hūxī yuèduì) were a Chinese rock music band of the early 1990s. They were one of the six bands to participate in the 1990 Modern Music Concert.

"Breathing" is a single by Swiss extreme metal band Triptykon. Released on 17 March 2014 via Prowling Death Records/ Century Media Records, it served as a teaser for their then-upcoming second full-length album, Melana Chasmata. It contains two tracks that eventually would appear in the album, "Breathing" and "Boleskine House".

Breathing is a memorial sculpture situated on the roof of the Peel Wing of BBC Broadcasting House, in London. The sculpture commemorates journalists and associated staff who have been killed whilst carrying out their work. It consists of a 10-metre (32 ft) high glass and steel column, with a torch-like, inverted spire shape, decorated with words. It also features a poem by James Fenton. At night the sculpture gently glows, then at 10pm every evening (coinciding with the broadcast of the BBC ten o'clock news) the memorial shines a beam of light into the sky for 30 minutes, which reaches up to 900m.

The memorial was officially unveiled on 16 June 2008 by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The sculpture is by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, working in collaboration with the Broadcasting House architect Sir Richard MacCormac and his team at MJP Architects., Modus Operandi public art consultants and the engineers Whitby Bird & Partners. It was commissioned and selected as a result of an international competition for the BBC's public art scheme. The shape of the sculpture is inspired by the spire of the adjoining All Souls Church, and the radio mast on the roof of Broadcasting House.

Breathing is the process that moves air in and out of the lungs, or the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the external environment into and out of the blood through other respiratory organs such as gills. For organisms with lungs, breathing is also called pulmonary ventilation, which consists of inhalation (breathing in) and exhalation (breathing out). Breathing is one part of physiological respiration required to sustain life. Aerobic organisms such as birds, mammals, and reptiles require oxygen at cellular level to release energy by metabolizing energy-rich molecules such as fatty acids and glucose. This is often referred to as cellular respiration. Breathing is only one of the processes that delivers oxygen to where it is needed in the body and removes excess carbon dioxide. The next process in this chain of events is the transport of these gases throughout the body by the circulatory system, and then their uptake or release from the respiring cells. Breathing fulfills another vital function: that of regulating the pH of the extracellular fluids of the body. It is, in fact, this homeostatic function which determines the rate and depth of breathing. The medical term for normal relaxed breathing is eupnea. At the end of each exhalation the adult human lungs still contain 2.5 - 3.0 liters of air, termed the functional residual capacity (FRC). Breathing replaces only about 15% of this volume of gas with each breath. This ensures that the composition of the FRC changes very little during the breathing cycle, and remains significantly different from the composition of the ambient air. The partial pressures of the gases in the blood flowing through the alveolar capillaries equilibrate with the partial pressures of the gases in the FRC, ensuring that the P,and P of the arterial blood, and therefore its pH, remain constant. The equilibration of the gases in the alveolar blood with those in the alveolar air (i.e. the gas exchange between the two) occurs by passive diffusion.

Breathing is used for a number of other subsidiary functions, such as speech, expression of the emotions (e.g. laughing. yawning etc.), and, in animals that cannot sweat through the skin, panting.

Breathing is a 2011 Austrian art house drama film filmed by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht, directed and written by Karl Markovics. The film concerns a 19-year-old inmate in a detention facility for juveniles, with a pending application for parole, who is challenged to reconsider his identity by a trial work-release job at a morgue . Starring Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka and Gerhard Liebmann, it was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Schubert won Best Actor at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival for his performance, presented to him by Angelina Jolie.

The film was selected as Austria's submission to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not make the final shortlist.

"Breathing" is a song recorded by American recording artist Jason Derulo for his second studio album, Future History (2011). It was written by Derulo, Jacob Luttrell, Lauren Christy, Julian Bunetta, Krassimir Tsvetanov Kurkchiyski, Shope Trad and Folksong Thrace, while production of the song was helmed by DJ Frank E. "Breathing" was initially released as one of four promotional singles for the album in September 2011. It was later released to contemporary hit radio in Australia on October 24, 2011, and elsewhere from January 31, 2012, as the third single from Future History. Musically, "Breathing" is a Eurodance song that displays influences of electro and house, and features "tribal vocal chorales" in the background. It samples the song "Pilentze Pee", which is sung by the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. Lyrical inspiration for the song came from the death of Derulo's cousin, who died in 2011.

"Breathing" garnered positive reviews by many music critics, most of whom praised the production. The song attained moderate chart success, where it peaked inside the top-ten on the singles charts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia and Switzerland. Additionally, it reached the top-thirty in France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The song peaked at number 28 on the US Pop Songs chart. "Breathing" was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), for shipments of 140,000 copies. The accompanying music video was directed by Colin Tilley, and features Derulo in an abandoned warehouse, as well as other scenes of him shirtless in a blue tinted room. Derulo performed "Breathing" live at the Belfast City Hall in Northern Ireland, to coincide with the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards. The song has been covered by British recording artist Cher Lloyd.