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Breather
Definition:
(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.