Inhale vs Respire - What's the difference?
inhale | respire |
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.
To breathe in and out.
To engage in the process of respiration.
To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes) , lines 10-11:
To inhale and exhale; to breathe.
(obsolete) Rest, respite.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
In intransitive terms the difference between inhale and respire
is that inhale is to draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm while respire is to recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.In transitive terms the difference between inhale and respire
is that inhale is 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 while respire is to inhale and exhale; to breathe.As a noun respire is
rest, respite.inhale
English
Verb
(inhal)- The hungry child inhaled her meal.
Synonyms
* (draw air into the lungs) inbreathe, breathe in, inspire * inbreathe, breathe in, inspireAntonyms
* (draw air into the lungs) outbreathe, breathe out, exhale, expire (archaic) * outbreathe, breathe out, exhaleDerived terms
* inhalation * French inhaleExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----respire
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire .
Synonyms
* (to breathe in and out) seeNoun
(en noun)- He cast to suffer him no more respire , / But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld, / And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.