Breathe vs Spire - What's the difference?
breathe | spire |
To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
:Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
To use (a gas) to sustain life.
:While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
Figuratively, to live.
:I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe .
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:I am in health, I breathe .
*(rfdate) Sir Walter Scott
*:Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
To draw something into the lungs.
:Try not to breathe too much smoke.
To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
:If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
:The wind breathes through the trees.
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
*(rfdate) Byron
*:There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
To give an impression of, to exude.
:The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
To whisper quietly.
:He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
To exchange gases with the environment.
:Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
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*:Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed
*(rfdate) Shakespeare
*:Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
:At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
* 1913 ,
A sharp or tapering point.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=1 A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
* Shakespeare
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
Of a seed, plant etc.: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
* Mortimer
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
(obsolete) To breathe.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A spiral.
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
As verbs the difference between breathe and spire
is that breathe is to repeatedly draw air into, and expel it from, the lungs in order to extract oxygen from it and excrete waste products while spire is of a seed, plant etc: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate or spire can be (obsolete) to breathe.As a noun spire is
or spire can be one of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.breathe
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* (to draw air in and out) seeDerived terms
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* * 1000 English basic wordsspire
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with Dutch spier, German Spier, (Spiere), Danish spir, Norwegian spir, Swedish spira.Noun
(en noun)- Clara had pulled a button from a hollyhock spire , and was breaking it to get the seeds.
citation, passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
- The spire of the church rose high above the town.
- the spire and top of praises
Verb
(spir)- In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre , / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.
- It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) spirer, and its source, (etyl) .Verb
(spir)- (Shenstone)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) spire.Noun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
