breather
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Etymology
From breathe + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
breather (plural breathers)
- Something or someone that breathes.
- (specifically) A heavy breather.
- 1981 April 25, Martin H. Krieger, “Phone Calls”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
- Most of us make sense of the world through talk and sight, and breathers represent that most anxiety provoking experience, nothingness with a hint of possibility.
- A short break; a rest or respite.
- After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
- (physics) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
- (colloquial, dated) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
- (mechanics) An air inlet path to the crankcase
Synonyms
- (short break): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
Derived terms
Translations
something that breathes
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short break
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physics: kind of excitation
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