Breathing vs Digestion - What's the difference?
breathing | digestion |
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
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
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, title= 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.
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)- 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
digestion
English
(wikipedia digestion)Noun
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.}}