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.
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
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie Sheen
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
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk
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
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
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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