Meaning of breathing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. verbal noun of breathe: The act of respiration; a single instance of this
2. gerund of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this.
   countable, form-of, gerund, uncountable
3. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof
4. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
   countable, uncountable
5. respiración, aliento, respiro; inhalación, aspiración;___ exercises → ejercicios respiratorios;
6. Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time
7. Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
8. The act or process of respiration.
9. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration
10. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
    countable, uncountable
11. The time required to take one's breath.
12. Aspiration; secret prayer
13. Aspiration; secret prayer.
    countable, uncountable
14. Either of two marks, the rough breathing ( ̔ ) and the smooth breathing ( ′ ), used in Greek to indicate presence or absence of aspiration.
15. (Physiology) the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
16. a single breath: a breathing between words.
17. an utterance: a breathing of hate.
18. a soft movement, esp of air
19. a rest or pause
20. (Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a. expulsion of breath (rough breathing) or absence of such expulsion (smooth breathing) preceding the pronunciation of an initial vowel or rho in ancient Greek
    phonetics

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]”

“DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church? / CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. / LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind. / DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.”

“the breathings of the Holy Spirit”

“Let us then begin Heaven here, in the Frame and Temper of our Minds, in our heavenly Affections and Converſation; in a due Prepation for, and in earneſt Deſires and Breathings after that bleſſed State vvhich vve firmly believe and aſſuredly hope to be one day poſſeſſed of: […]”

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