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noun. The act or process of respiration.

noun. A single breath.

noun. The time required to take one's breath.

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noun. Either of two marks, the rough breathing ( ʽ ) and the smooth breathing ( ᾽ ), used in Greek to indicate presence or absence of aspiration.

noun. The presence or absence of aspiration indicated by either of these marks.

noun. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air: as,“a difficulty of breathing,”

noun. Aspiration; secret prayer or desire.

noun. Aërial motion; respiratory action.

noun. Figuratively, a gentle influence or operation; inspiration:as, the breathings of the Spirit.

noun. A breathing-place; a vent.

noun. Physical exercise, from the fact that it calls the lungs into free play: as, the Oxford crew took their breathings every morning at ten.

noun. Utterance; words.

noun. Time taken to recover breath; hence, a stop; a delay.

noun. In grammar, aspiration or its absence, or a sign indicating it.

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

noun. Air in gentle motion.

noun. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

noun. Aspiration; secret prayer.

noun. Exercising; promotion of respiration.

noun. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.

noun. Breathing place; vent.

noun. Stop; pause; delay.

noun. 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.

noun. A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.

noun. A vent.

noun. pause; relaxation.

noun. time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time.

noun. See 2d Asper, n.

noun. a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai).

verb. Present participle of breathe.

noun. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.

noun. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.

noun. Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.

adjective. passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination

noun. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

"It must not be supposed that a singer's breathing is something strange or complex, for it is nothing more than _an amplification of normal, healthy breathing_."

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