(n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
(n.) That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Djokovic is grateful to hold to love, and the rest of us are happy for a breather too.
(2) From the initial 8 predominantly mouth breathers before treatment only 2 remained clinically unchanged.
(3) Oscillations occurred more frequently in periodic breathers, and hypercapnic responses were higher in subjects with oscillations than those without.
(4) As the crowd took a much-needed breather and the game entered its last 10 minutes, Santos finally made his first concession to circumspection, replacing Nani with an extra defensive anchor in Porto’s Danilo Pereira, knowing that a point would see his side through come what may.
(5) Comparisons of measured breathing modes and dentofacial characteristics revealed a weak tendency among mouth breathers toward a Class II skeletal pattern and retroclination of maxillary and mandibular incisors.
(6) Two of the wheels had broken off, and I was making painfully slow progress, needing to take a breather every five yards or so.
(7) The pressure-flow technique was used to estimate nasal airway size; inductive plethysmography was used to assess nasal-oral breathing in normal and impaired breathers.
(8) "These pesticides have been building up in our environment for a decade, so limited, temporary bans won't be enough to give bees a breather.
(9) At birth, the neonate is an obligate nasal breather and any compromise of the nasal passages is potentially life threatening.
(10) Many persisting abdominal breathers (pBA) at rest go to health spas 4-5 times or more at public expense in order to relieve their lower back pain.
(11) Using subcellular preparations of gills from Arapaima, an obligate air breather, and aruana, a related osteoglossid that is an obligate water breather, a comparison was made of the relative roles of the malate-aspartate cycle and the alpha-glycerophosphate (alpha-GP) cycle in transferring reducing equivalents from the cytosol to the mitochondria.
(12) Nine subjects were habitual nasal breathers both before and after topical anaesthesia with 4% lignocaine.
(13) In 1969, a screening of Paint Your Wagon wasn't complete without the chance to stop halfway, have a breather and ponder whether or not Lee Marvin would manage to tame Jean Seberg's headstrong ways come the second act.
(14) Based on this multidisciplinary judgment and confirmed by the rhinomanometric values two groups could be distinguished: a group of predominantly mouth breathers where the nasal airway resistance had an average decrease of 34% and a group of predominantly nasal breathers where the nasal airway resistance had an average decrease of less than 5%.
(15) As air breathers that are inseparably tied to the surface, cetaceans are highly trackable; they may thus help in the monitoring of habitat degradation and other long-term ecologic change.
(16) The visitors had been defending just before the interval when Stephen Ireland intercepted and fed Adam, the Scot meandering to the edge of the centre-circle inside his own half before pummelling a shot so optimistic it initially felt like a clearance into touch to grant his team-mates a breather.
(17) After a few hairy minutes, England get the breather they need and deserve for a superb first-half performance: controlled, mature and rousing.
(18) It was appropriate, perhaps, that the matchwinner was Laurent Koscielny, restored to the starting lineup after a much-needed breather.
(19) Taking a bit of a breather from writing her own songs, a couple of months ago Bettinson released a free EP of covers called, er, Covers, in which she tackled a song from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
(20) Although variability among subjects was demonstrated in the ratio of nasal respiration to total respiration, 25% of the "nasally-obstructed" patients were 100% nasal breathers and no patient had a nasal component less than 18% of total respiration.
Lattice
Definition:
(n.) Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.
(n.) The representation of a piece of latticework used as a bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.
(v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers.
(v. i.) To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice; as, to lattice a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) HTBE fibronectin production may contribute to directed migration because fibronectin, added to the upper lattice, reproduced a portion of the directed migration seen in coculture.
(2) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
(3) In addition to rapid motions, slow motions were detected by 1H spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame (TH1 rho) and cross-polarization time (TCH), together with data from static spectra, indicating that the aliphatic portion of the detergent interacts more strongly with hydrophobic protein surfaces than do the polar heads.
(4) In addition, the spin lattice relaxation time of the cytoplasmic Cs resonance was approx.
(5) Equilibrium statistical mechanics is much concerned with problems involving intermolecularinteractions, either in lattices or in pure fluids or solutions.
(6) It is shown that a cluster of polarized lattice ions is detectable in images of polar-glass BaxK2-xFexTi6-xO13 (x greater than or equal to 1.2).
(7) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(8) Given that lattice constraints strongly inhibit large-scale conformational changes these results allow us to identify the average solution structure with the 'open' conformer determined crystallographically.
(9) An algorithm is implemented to determine the form and phase shift for inconsistent type II quadrupoles for any space group having glide or screw-axis translations which are not a consequence of lattice centering.
(10) Spin-spin relaxation time (T2), spin-lattice relaxation time (T1), and spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame (T1p) of water protons in solutions of bacteriophage T2 were studied by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance.
(11) When the higher concentrations of Ba2+, Sr2+, and Ca2+ were used, the lattice constants were not shortened.
(12) The lattice reinforces the cylindrical shape of the cell and permits limited changes in length.
(13) These results indicate that at 24 h postmortem the extra fluid released from PSE pork already has been lost from the myofilament lattice and is awaiting release from compartments downstream such as interfiber and interfascicular spaces.
(14) One lattice was trigonal, as in purple membrane, and showed a high-resolution electron diffraction pattern from glucose-sustained patches.
(15) Interfiber area was correlated negatively with filament lattice area and WHC, but no significant correlation was found between filament lattice area and WHC.
(16) A mathematical model is developed whereby the longitudinal magnetization of phosphocreatine (PC), ATP, Pi, and total phosphate (PT) can be calculated on the basis of assumed chemical rate constants (kappa i) and spin lattice relaxation times of the muscle PC in equilibrium ATP in equilibrium Pi exchange system.
(17) In the orthorhombic crystal lattice, tRNA(Asp) molecules are associated by anticodon-anticodon interactions through a two-fold symmetry axis.
(18) Type I beads: at 3 days, were surrounded by multinucleated giant cells; by 4 days, patches of bead-associated new bone were present along with giant cells; after 1 week, occasional bead-associated multinucleated cells were seen, but now most beads were surrounded by new intramedullary bone, forming an extensive bead-bone lattice.
(19) Dual aspects, crystallite size and lattice imperfection related to the crystallinity were analyzed by the process of Variance and Fourier analysis based on the X-ray diffraction line profiles.
(20) This paper documents our initial experience with a laser indirect ophthalmoscope used successfully in the retinal photocoagulation of patients with diabetic retinopathy, venous occlusions, peripheral retinal holes and lattice degenerations and in post-vitrectomy cases.