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Definition: Breath |
BreathNoun1. The process of taking in and expelling air during breathing; "he took a deep breath and dived into the pool"; "he was fighting to his last breath". 2. The air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration; "his sour breath offended her". 3. A short respite. 4. An indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her". 5. A slight movement of the air; "there wasn't a breath of air in the room". Verb1. Absorb air and reach optimal flavor, of wine; "This rare Bordeaux must be allowed to breathe for at least 2 hours". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "breath" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath, commendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of business deals will follow. Breath if fetid, indicates sickness and snares. Losing one's breath, denotes signal failure where success seemed assured. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Breath All in a breath. Without taking breath. (Latin, continenti spiritu.) It takes away one's breath. The news is so astounding it causes one to hold his breath with surprise. Out of breath. Panting from exertion; temporarily short of breath. Save your breath to cool your porridge. Don't talk to me, it is only wasting your breath. "You might have saved your breath to cool your porridge."- Mrs. Gaskell: Libbie Marsh (Era 111). To catch one's breath. To check suddenly the free act of breathing. " `I see her,' replied I, catching my breath with joy."- Capt. Marryat: Peter Simple. To hold one's breath. Voluntarily to cease breathing for a time. To take breath. To cease for a little time from some exertion in order to recover from exhaustion of breath. Under one's breath. In a whisper or undertone of voice. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Breath is one of the few bodily functions which can be controlled both consciously and unconsciously. This is one reason why attention to it is common in many forms of meditation. It brings us oxygen, more important to us than food or water, without it we would die in minutes.Laughter, physically, is simply repeated sharp breaths; there is no consensus in psychology on its purpose. Hiccups are another still-mysterious breath-related phenomenon. Breath is often used as a metaphor for life itself, and time of death is sometimes thought to be at the moment when breath stops (although countless people have 'come back' to life after breathing stops).
See respiration for breathing as a biological function.
Breath is also a short stage work by Samuel Beckett
It was written for inclusion in Kenneth Tynan's revue Oh! Calcutta, which was first staged at the Eden Theatre in New York City on June 16, 1969. It was first performed in Britain at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969, and first published in the periodical Gambit in 1970.
Even for Beckett, whose later plays are often extremely short, Breath is an unusually terse work. Its length can be estimated from Beckett's detailed instructions in the script to be about 35 seconds. It consists of a recording of a brief cry, followed by an amplified recording of somebody slowly inhaling and exhaling accompanied by an increase and decrease in the intensity of the light. There is then a second cry, and the piece ends. No people are seen on stage, but Beckett states that it should be "littered with rubbish."
Beckett sent the text of the play on a postcard to Tynan. At the first production, Tynan made the work fit in with the somewhat risque nature of his revue by scattering naked bodies amongst the rubbish, suggesting that the work was about sexual intercourse. Modern critics, however, have tended to see it as being about a more typical Beckett subject: the relative shortness and futility of life itself. Some critics have seen it as a summation of Pozzo's words in Waiting for Godot: "They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant and then it is night once more." Others have been less charitable, thinking of it as a bad joke.
A filmed version of Breath was directed by the artist Damien Hirst as part of the Beckett on Film project.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Breath."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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| BrAC | English | Breath alcohol concentration | |
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Synonyms: BreathSynonyms: breather (n), breathing place (n), breathing space (n), breathing spell (n), breathing time (n), hint (n), intimation (n). (additional references) |
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Animality | Noun: animal life; animation, animality, animalization; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath. |
Instantaneity | Moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time. |
Wind | Noun: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent. |
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Screenplays | What has died is the last breath in me that was human (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Uh, Clinton's breath! (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) It was nothing like that, penis breath! (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Save your breath for cooling your porridge (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) | |
Lyrics | But I'm down to one last breath (One Last Breath; performing artist: Creed) Every breath you take and every move you make ("Every Breath You Take"; performing artist: The Police) Outside I take deep breath (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes) To start again, take another breath (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) You held your breath and the door for me (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Clever | It is better to have bad breath than to have no breath at all. (references; author: unknown) You could better start giving me mouth to mouth, because you just took my breath away! (references; author: unknown) Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your breath taken away. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Robin Redbreast's bad breath. (references; author: unknown) Thelma and Theo have bad breath. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Every Breath You Take (2003) Breath of Life (1962) A Breath of Scandal (1960) Hold Your Breath (1924) The Breath of Scandal (1924) | |
Song Titles | Breath Your Name (performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) Every Breath You Take (performing artist: The Police) | |
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 | Hantaviruses that cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are carried in rodent droppings, especially the deer mouse. Incubation lasts for 1–5wks. Sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing. Credit: CDC. |  | Opening the valve into the wind of an evacuated glass flask while the observer holds his breath to keep from contaminating the sample. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Climbing up the rock wall and catching breath after evading sharks. Credit: Small World. |  | While You Make Up Your Mind About Whooping Cough Vaccination, Thousands Of Children Are Holding Their Breath : There's An Epidemic. Get Your Child Vaccinated Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Let's fight air pollution. : Your Lung Association cares about every breath you take. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | At sight of her, Tryer caught his breath and gulped --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The breath of the Hun. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Somebody ought to paint it, Blair said under his breath. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wrigley's Double Mint Gum: Be healthy - happy - wise, enjoy delicious double mint gum, aid teeth breath - digestion daily ... millions do / Shepard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Charge the enemy to the last breath. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Last breath of light" by Radek Siechowicz Commentary: "Last breath of light." | "Night in Rome" by Kim Werker Commentary: "The city that takes my breath away..." |
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 | Respirator; assisted breathing; oxygen; lung; lungs; breath; breathing. | | Out of breath; winded; . |
| Exhale; exhalation; exhaling; breathe; breath; outbreath; breathing; lungs; respire; respiration; air; airways; mouth. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. |
Alexander Pope | What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. |
Dante (Alighieri) | Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. |
Dante Alighieri | And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. |
| Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and that, and changes name because it changes quarter. | |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. |
Pindar | One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath. |
Sir Walter Scott | Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. |
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Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | One is so fenced and guarded from the weather, that not a breath of air can find its way unpermitted |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | He had hardly done so before the Professor was back again, quite out of breath. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | That would satisfy a doctor, that’s what they always did on television -- if no mist formed on the mirror, there was no breath. Perhaps, he thought anxiously to himself, perhaps it was something to do with having heated wing mirrors |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He could not but recall how feebly, and with what frequent pauses for breath, he had toiled over the same ground, only two days before |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Not a breath stirred |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | O, well now, we got a good breath of ozone round the Head today |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Give me some little breath, some pause, dear Lord, Before I positively speak in this |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The two children crawled away, holding their breath, their faces purple with the pressure of their giggles |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | After this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. |
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Health | Dyspnea--Shortness of breath. (references) | |
Dyspnea - Shortness of breath. (references) | ||
This also helps stop shortness of breath. (references) | ||
Business | To the foreign franchiser wishing to enter the UK and European marketplaces, the legal climate will be a breath of fresh air. It will no doubt come as a relief to foreign franchisers to learn that in the UK there are no disclosure laws, no registration requirements and no laws focused on termination or renewal. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip That nothing from his hand can slip. Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an inch! 'Tis lucky that he so is planned That breath he draws not with his hand, For if he did, so great his greed He'd draw his last with eager speed. Nay, that were well, you say. Not so He'd draw but never let it go! |
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Ann Richards | What breaks your heart is that it is such a jewel, Havana is so beautiful. The architecture just takes your breath away. It is just crumbling, you know, really sad. |
Christopher Reeve | It's to the point where it hopefully will kick in autonomically, and I will be able to breath on my own. That is my goal and I will do that. |
Marc Racicot | Well, not to this point, but I certainly wouldn't dismiss the possibility that I could certainly sense it before the night is over, there's a long ways to go. And I've just been holding my breath and hope that things continue to unfold in a positive way. |
Phyllis Diller | Short of breathness. Short breath. I am short of breath. But right now, I'm fine because I'm looking at you. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body I shall continue in that spirit. |
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| "Breath" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Breath" is used about 5,130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.92% | 5,126 | 1,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "breath" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Breath | Last name | 100 | 74,664 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "breath". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abel | N/A | Biblical | Breath |
| Aapeli | N/A | Finnish | Breath |
| Ábel | N/A | Hungarian | Breath |
| Hebel | N/A | Jewish | Breath |
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Expressions using "breath": babies' breath ♦ baby's breath ♦ bad breath ♦ bate breath ♦ be out of breath ♦ be unable to breath ♦ breath alcohol concentration ♦ breath away ♦ breath heavily ♦ breath in vain ♦ breath of air ♦ breath of fresh air ♦ breath of wind ♦ breath rapidly ♦ Breath Regenesis ♦ breath test ♦ breath testing ♦ Breath Tests ♦ breath trap ♦ breath ways ♦ breath wise ♦ breathe one's last breath ♦ catch his breath ♦ catch one's breath ♦ catching of the breath ♦ Cellular Theta Breath ♦ Cogged breath sound ♦ deep breath ♦ draw a breath ♦ draw a deep breath ♦ draw breath ♦ draw one's breath ♦ draw one's last breath ♦ draw the breath of life ♦ draw the last breath ♦ false baby's breath ♦ fetch breath ♦ gasp for breath ♦ gather one's breath ♦ get one's breath back ♦ go for a breath of fresh air ♦ have boozy breath ♦ heat with breath ♦ hold one's breath ♦ hold the breath ♦ Hydrogen Breath Test ♦ in the same breath ♦ keep one's breath to cool one's porridge ♦ keep your breath tocool your porridge! ♦ last breath ♦ lose one's breath ♦ not a breath of air ♦ not a breath of wind ♦ out of breath ♦ pant for breath ♦ parting breath ♦ save one's breath ♦ say smth. under one's breath ♦ scant of breath ♦ short of breath ♦ shortness of breath ♦ speak below one's breath ♦ speak under one's breath ♦ stop and take breath ♦ stop the breath ♦ take a breath ♦ take a breath of fresh air ♦ take a deep breath ♦ take away one's breath ♦ take breath ♦ take smb.'s breath away ♦ taking a breath ♦ the breath is out of the body ♦ To draw breath ♦ To gather breath ♦ to one's last breath ♦ To take breath ♦ to the last breath ♦ To yield the breath ♦ to yield the breath up ♦ Transformational Breath ♦ under one's breath ♦ under smb.'s breath ♦ under the breath ♦ Urea Breath Test ♦ with bated breath. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "breath": breath-alcohol, breath-catching, breath-control, breath-group, breath-groups, breath-held, breath-holding, breath-jerking, breath-lili, breath-of-life packet, breath-snatching, breath-space, breath-taking, breath-takingly, breath-test, breath-testing, breath-wind-spirit. | |
Ending with "breath": in-breath, out-of-breath. | |
Containing "breath": last-breath-of-a-dying. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
breath of fire | 1,358 | breath of fire rom | 83 |
bad breath | 969 | babys breath | 82 |
breath | 712 | walk through for breath of fire 3 | 78 |
breath of fire 2 | 336 | breath control | 67 |
dog breath | 316 | alcohol breath tester | 66 |
shortness of breath | 302 | breath of fire 5 | 65 |
breath of fire 3 | 290 | bad breath cause | 63 |
breath of fire 4 | 258 | breath sound | 60 |
breath of fire iv | 192 | breath fire v | 58 |
breath of fire 2 walk through | 157 | breath creed last lyrics one | 58 |
breath of fire walk through | 151 | every breath you take lyrics | 57 |
one last breath | 147 | breath of fire 4 walk through | 57 |
you take my breath away | 143 | breath of fire 2 rom | 54 |
every breath you take | 139 | hog breath | 51 |
bad breath cure | 136 | breath harder | 49 |
breath of fire dragon quarter | 102 | breath holding | 49 |
breath of fire iii | 101 | life and breath | 47 |
fresh breath | 92 | breath lyrics | 46 |
breath of fire ii | 91 | bad breath remedy | 43 |
away breath lyrics take | 87 | hog breath saloon | 41 |
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| Language | Translations for "breath"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | adem. (various references) | |
Albanian | frymë (head, none, psyche, puff, spirit, wind). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفس هواء (pull), نفخة (blast, flatulence, flatulency, gust, puff, whiff), نسمة (aura, waft), لحظة (awhile, breathing, instant, jiffy, little while, minute, moment, second, short time, tick, trice, wink), تنفس (aspiration, breathe, breathing, inhale, respiration, respire, sniff), عبير الأزهار, برهة (minute, moment, while). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | въздух (air, atmosphere, wind), повей (puff, whiff), дъх (aroma, blowing, puff, respiration, savor, savour, tincture, tinge, wind), дишане (aspiration, breathing, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鼻息 , 氣流 (air stream; airflow), 氣息 , 息 (interest, news, rest), 咽气 (out-of-breath). (various references) | |
Czech | dech (respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Danish | vejrtrækning (breathing, respiration), respiration (breathing, respiration), åndedræt (respiration), ånde (breathe). (various references) | |
Dutch | adem. (various references) | |
Esperanto | spiro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bróstmøði (asthma, shortness of breath, wheeziness). (various references) | |
Farsi | نیرو (Blood, Brawn, Energy, Force, Gut, Leverage, Might, Pep, Power, Strength, Thrust, Tuck, Vigor, Vim, Vis, Zip), نفس (Air, Ego, Oneself, Self, Snuff, Wind), نسیم (Air, Breeze, Guff), جان (Ghost, Life, Spirit), رایحه (Aroma, Odor, Scent, Smell), دم (At, Blast, Instant, Minute, Moment, Tail, Train, Trice). (various references) | |
Finnish | hengitys (breathing, respiration). (various references) | |
French | souffle (breathing, breeze), haleine (breathing), respiration (breathe, breathing). (various references) | |
Frisian | sike. (various references) | |
German | Atem (breathing, puff, wind), Hauch (air, aura, breeze, ghost, hint, modicum, moiety, puff, smack, smell, spice, tinge, waft, whiff), atemzug, Schnaufer. (various references) | |
Greek | αναπνοή (breathing, respiration). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | frymë (wind). (various references) | |
Hebrew | נשימה (breathing, respiration, wind), נפש (life, mind, person, psyche, respiration, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lélegzet (wind), lehelet (aura, aurae, breathing, expiration, puff). (various references) | |
Icelandic | andi, andardráttur, önd (duck, spirit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tiupan (puff), sedikit (bit, dash, dribblet, exiguous, little), napas, atma (soul). (various references) | |
Irish | plúchadh (asthma, shortness of breath, wheeziness), múchadh (asthma, shortness of breath, wheeziness). (various references) | |
Italian | alito (puff, waft), soffio (bladder, blister, blow, bubble, murmur, puff, souffle, waft, whiff, whiffle), fiato (puff, wind). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 息 (tone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブレス , きそく (breathing, fetters, full ability, regulations, restraints, rule, shackles), いぶき, いき (abandonment, chic, court rank diploma, desertion, disposition, essence, freshness, going, heart, level, limits, purity, region, relinquishment, spirit, stage, stet, style, tone), こきゅう (Chinese fiddle, fiddle, old acquaintance, respiration). (various references) | |
Korean | 흡입 (inhalation, inhaling, suction). (various references) | |
Malay | nafas. (various references) | |
Manx | soar (aroma, bouquet, odour, pong, scent, sense of smell, smell, sniff), ennalagh (aspiratory, breathing, respiratory), ennal (wind). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ånde. (various references) | |
Papiamen | roseya, rosea, aliento (respiration). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sopro (blow, blowing, puff, souffle, whiff), respiração (inspiration, puff, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Romanian | boare (breeze), suflu (blast, blowing, soul, whiff, wind), suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, conscience, feeling, ghost, head, heart, inner man, Jack, life, life blood, man, mind, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), suflare (blow, blowing, breathing, draught, puff, waft, wind), respiraţie (breathing, respiration, wind), rãsuflu, rãsuflare (breathing, wind), rãsuflãturã, patã (blemish, blot, blur, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), mireasmã (fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, scent), aer (air, appearance, aroma, aspect, atmosphere, carriage, resemblance), adiere (air, aura, breathing, breeze, gale, puff, whiff, wind, zephyr), abur (breathing, breeze, damp, exhalation, fog, fume, haze, reek, smoke, smother, steam, vapor, vapour). (various references) | |
Russian | веяние (blowing), вдох (inhalation), дуновение (blow, blowing, flatus, puff), дыхание;вздох, дыхание (blowing, breathing, flatus, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Scottish | anail (air, breeze). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzdah (heaving, sigh), disanje (breathing, respiration), dah (puff, whiff, wind). (various references) | |
Spanish | aliento (encouragement, wind), respiración (breathing, respiration). (various references) | |
Sranan | bro (blow, breathe). (various references) | |
Swedish | pust (puff, whiff), hämta andan, andas (breathe, breathes, breathing, respire), anda (genius, morale, spirit, tone, vibes, wind). (various references) | |
Tagalog | hiningá. (various references) | |
Thai | อย่ากลั้นหายใจ (Don't hold your breath), อย่าคิดว่าบางสิ่งจะเกิดขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็ว (Don't hold your breath). (various references) | |
Turkish | nefes (exhalation, whiff, wind). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dem (vapor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шепіт (lisp, susurration, whisper, whispering), момент (article, breathing, moment, point, snatch, time), запотівання (sweating, weep, weeping), повівання, подув (air, blow, blowing, breathing, flatus, sigh, waft, waftage, whiff), подих (blow, breathing, flatus, waft), пауза (break, caesura, interregnum, interval, pause, stop), пахощі (breathing, fragrance, fragrancy, frankincense, odor, odour, redolence, redolency), дихання (breathing, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phí lời, nói thì thầm, nói thì thào làm ngạc nhiên, làn hương thoảng tiếng thì thào điều cần thiết, làm kinh ngạc hoài hơi, hơi thở (life-breath), hơi cơn gió nhẹ. (various references) | |
Welsh | anadl. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 3. zi, lil. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | aura, psykhe, psykhe-. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anima, aura, aurae, auram, auris, flatibus, flatu, flatum, flatus, halitum, halitus, pneum, spiritibus, spiritu, spiritui, spiritum, spiritus, spirituum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 17, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oude upo ceirwn anqrwpwn qerapeuetai prosdeomenoV tinoV autoV didouV pasin zwhn kai pnohn kata panta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nec manibus humanis colitur indigens aliquo cum ipse det omnibus vitam et inspirationem et omnia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Nethir is worschipid bi mannus hoondis, nether hath nede of ony thing, for he yyueth lijf to alle men, and brethinge, and alle thingis; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Nether is worshipped with mennes hondes as though he neded of eny thinge seinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breeth to all men every where |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 17, Verse 25 |
| Albanian | dhe as shërbehet nga duart e njerëzve, sikur të kishte nevojë për ndonjë gjë, sepse ai u jep të gjithëve jetë, hukatje dhe çdo gjë; |
| Cebuano | ni pagaalagaran siya sa mga kamot sa tawo, nga daw may pagpanginahanglan pa siya, sanglit siya gayud mao man gani ang nagahatag ug kinabuhi ug ginhawa ug sa tanang butang ngadto sa tanang mga tawo. |
| Croatian | i ne poslužuju ga ljudske ruke, kao da bi što trebao, on koji svima daje život, dah i - sve. |
| Danish | han tjenes ikke heller af Menneskers Hænder som en, der trænger til noget, efterdi han selv giver alle Liv og Ånde og alle Ting. |
| Dutch | En wordt ook van mensenhanden niet gediend, als iets behoevende, alzo Hij Zelf allen het leven, en den adem, en alle dingen geeft; |
| Finnish | eikä häntä voida ihmisten käsillä palvella, ikäänkuin hän jotakin tarvitsisi, hän, joka itse antaa kaikille elämän ja hengen ja kaiken. |
| French | il n`est point servi par des mains humaines, comme s`il avait besoin de quoi que ce soit, lui qui donne à tous la vie, la respiration, et toutes choses. |
| German | sein wird auch nicht von Menschenhänden gepflegt, als der jemandes bedürfe, so er selber jedermann Leben und Odem allenthalben gibt. |
| Hungarian | Sem embereknek kezeitõl nem tiszteltetik, mintha valami nélkül szûkölködnék, holott õ ád mindeneknek életet, leheletet és mindent; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia juga tidak memerlukan bantuan manusia, sebab Ialah yang memberi hidup dan napas dan segala sesuatu kepada manusia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan tiada pula Ia berkehendak dilayani dengan tangan manusia, seolah-olah Ia ada kekurangan apa-apa, karena Ia sendiri mengaruniai sekaliannya hidup dan nafas dan segala sesuatu itu. |
| Italian | né dalle mani dell'uomo si lascia servire come se avesse bisogno di qualche cosa, essendo lui che dà a tutti la vita e il respiro e ogni cosa. |
| Maori | E kore ano e mahia he mea mana e te ringa tangata, me te mea he mate nona ki tetahi aha ranei, ko ia hoki hei homai i te ora, i te manawa, i nga mea katoa, ki nga tangata katoa; |
| Norwegian | heller ikke tjenes han av menneskelige hender som om han trengte til noget, han som jo selv gir alle liv og ånde og alle ting; |
| Portuguese | nem tampouco é servido por mãos humanas, como se necessitasse de alguma coisa; pois ele mesmo é quem dá a todos a vida, a respiração e todas as coisas; |
| Rumanian | El nu este slujit de mkni omenewti, ca wi cknd ar avea trebuinyq de ceva, El, care dq tuturor viaya, suflarea wi toate lucrurile. |
| Shuar | Niisha aents Yáinkiat tusa atsumatsui. Warí, imia-ninki Niisha ii iwiaakmarin, ii mayattairincha tura Ashí írunna nunasha Súramtsujik, Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | ni es servido por manos humanas como si necesitase algo, porque él es quien da a todos vida y aliento y todas las cosas. |
| Swahili | Wala hatumikiwi kwa mikono ya watu kana kwamba anahitaji chochote kile, kwa maana yeye mwenyewe ndiye anayewapa watu uhai, anawawezesha kupumua na anawapa kila kitu. |
| Uma | Uma wo'o-i merapi' tulungi hi manusia', apa' Hi'a-hana to mpowai' -ta katuwua' pai' inoha' pai' hawe'ea to taparaluu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "breath": breathabilities, breathability, breathable, breathe, breathed, breather, breathers, breathes, breathier, breathiest, breathily, breathiness, breathinesses, breathing, breathings, breathless, breathlessly, breathlessness, breathlessnesses, breaths, breathtaking, breathtakingly, breathy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "breath": inbreathe, inbreathed, inbreathes, inbreathing, nonbreathing, overbreathing, overbreathings, unbreathable. (additional references) | |
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"Breath" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberarth, Baratha, Beath, Beragh, beraht, berat, bereat, Beuth, bleath, braht, brath, Breagh, breat, breate, bredth, breeeath, breeth, Brehaut, breta, Bretch, breth, briate, broath, dreath, reath, Reetha, Tresaith. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "eath": Beath, Death, Heath, 'Neath, 'Sdeath, sheath, Smeath. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bather, bertha. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bathe, berth, earth, hater, heart, rathe, rehab, taber. | |
-2 letters: abet, baht, bare, bate, bath, bear, beat, beta, beth, brae, brat, eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, herb, rate, rath, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae. | |
-3 letters: arb, are, art, ate, bah, bar, bat, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, eta, eth, hae, hat, her. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: batcher, bathers, berthas, blather, brachet, breadth, breathe, breaths, breathy, halbert. | |
+2 letters: barathea, barghest, batchers, bathrobe, blathers, brachets, brashest, breadths, breathed, breather, breathes, eurybath, halberts. | |
+3 letters: abhorrent, baratheas, barghests, bathrobes, bathwater, betrothal, birthdate, birthrate, blathered, blatherer, brachiate, branchlet, brashiest, breathers, breathier, breathily, breathing, earthborn, eurybaths, heartbeat, heartburn, herbalist, hereabout, heritable, hibernate, inbreathe, inhabiter, reinhabit, sunbather, tarbushes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Bible Trace 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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