(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.
Respite
Definition:
(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
(n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.
(n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
(n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
(n.) To give or grant a respite to.
(n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.
(n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
(n.) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
(2) They must also instruct patients not to wear extended wear lenses longer than 7 days at a time and to allow for an overnight respite from lens wear after this period of use.
(3) Nursing implications suggested by this study relate to helping the caregivers in the early mobilization of their own informal resources for respite care and to assisting caregivers to deal with the emotional aspects of caregiving.
(4) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
(5) At the time, it was a lone moment of respite for the Americans in what had become an unrelenting assault.
(6) To celebrate its eighth birthday, Twitter is offering each user a respite from @Jack, and the ability to go back in time and read their own first tweet.
(7) Practical and policy issues are raised regarding the desirability of investment in respite care.
(8) Total number of hospital days was equivalent for the respite group and community-based control patients and was fewer than that for the acute care group.
(9) Support to those providing informal care might also be facilitated through community support services such as respite care, household maintenance, psychological support to care-givers, support groups, informal networks within a community and consideration of unconventional support methods.
(10) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
(11) This year's floods – the result of record rainfall from April to early July, and with little respite in sight – have been exacerbated by the very dry spring.
(12) Arab Iraqi notables would travel to Kurdistan for vacations, skiing and a respite from the chaos of war.
(13) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
(14) She recounts her prolonged campaign to get respite care (which no one had told her she was entitled to), and later to get funding to send her son to a residential school.
(15) He added: "continued low interest rates and the start of a fall in inflation offer only limited respite.
(16) They will bear the brunt of the job cuts in the public sector and they will also be expected to make up for the disappearance of local social services such as respite and home care as local government implements the huge front-end-loaded cuts this government has demanded.
(17) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(18) A five-day ceasefire in Yemen is expected to begin on Tuesday, offering much-needed respite for civilians who have endured almost seven weeks of Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed rebels.
(19) Sudden onset of confusion without obviously remediable cause and the need for respite care are indications for referral.
(20) Four wards accept acutely ill patients of both sexes, and a further five offer a mixture of rehabilitation and respite care.