Definition of Breathing

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Breathing

of Breathe

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

Air in gentle motion.

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

Aspiration; secret prayer.

Exercising; promotion of respiration.

Utterance; communication or publicity by words.

Breathing place; vent.

Stop; pause; delay.

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.

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

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Breathing Quotations

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Breathing Translations

breathing in French is respirant
breathing in German is Beatmung
breathing in Italian is respirazione
breathing in Latin is flatus
breathing in Spanish is respiracion
breathing in Swedish is andades, andningen, andas

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