Respiration vs Burning - What's the difference?
respiration | burning |
The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
An act of breathing; a breath.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 76:
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.
So hot as to seem to burn (something).
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Feeling great passion.
Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
The act by which something burns or is burned.
* 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
* 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
A fire.
As nouns the difference between respiration and burning
is that respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath while burning is the act by which something burns or is burned.As a verb burning is
present participle of lang=en.As an adjective burning is
so hot as to seem to burn (something).respiration
English
Noun
(en noun)- Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
Derived terms
* artificial respirationburning
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- Like a young hound upon a burning scent.
Noun
(en noun)- It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
- The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
- The burnings continued all day.