Breathing vs Inhale - What's the difference?
breathing | inhale |
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 ,
Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
Aspiration; secret prayer.
* Tillotson
To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
(figuratively) To eat very quickly.
As verbs the difference between breathing and inhale
is that breathing is while inhale is .As a noun breathing
is the act of respiration; a single instance of this.breathing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- the breathings of the Holy Spirit
- earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state
inhale
English
Verb
(inhal)- The hungry child inhaled her meal.
