Crossword clues for respire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respire \Re*spire"\ (r?*sp?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Respired (-sp?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Respiring.] [L. respirare, respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F. respirer. See Spirit.]
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To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
--Spenser.Here leave me to respire.
--Milton.From the mountains where I now respire.
--Byron. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.
Respire \Re*spire"\, v. t.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 easily following stress. 4 (context transitive English) To inhale and exhale; to breathe.
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"; "The patient is respiring" [syn: breathe, take a breath, suspire]
Wikipedia
"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 destruction.
Respire (also known as Breathe) is a 2014 French drama film based on the novel of the same name by Anne-Sophie Brasme. The film was directed by Mélanie Laurent and stars Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré and Claire Keim. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. In January 2015, the film received three nominations at the 20th Lumières Awards and also two nominations at the 40th César Awards.
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.