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Reparation vs Respiration - What's the difference?

reparation | respiration |

As nouns the difference between reparation and respiration

is that reparation is fix, repair while respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

reparation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually in plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).
  • * Dryden
    • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
  • The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
    • the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

    Synonyms

    * (a payment) restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction * (a renewing) restoration, repair

    See also

    * war reparations

    Anagrams

    * ----

    respiration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
  • An act of breathing; a breath.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 76:
    • Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
  • Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
  • The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

    • Derived terms

    * artificial respiration