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Breathing vs Digestion - What's the difference?

breathing | digestion |

As nouns the difference between breathing and digestion

is that breathing is the act of respiration; a single instance of this while digestion is the process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.

As a verb breathing

is present participle of lang=en.

breathing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
  • A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
  • (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
  • * 1599 ,
  • DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
    CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
    LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
    DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
  • Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
  • the breathings of the Holy Spirit
  • Aspiration; secret prayer.
  • * Tillotson
  • earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

    digestion

    Noun

  • The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
  • The result of this process.
  • The ability to use this process.
  • The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
  • The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
  • (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.