Scorching vs Breathing - What's the difference?
scorching | breathing |
Very hot.
The act or result of something being scorched.
* 1839 , The Lancet (volume 2, page 682)
* 1997 , Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills (page 76)
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
As verbs the difference between scorching and breathing
is that scorching is while breathing is .As nouns the difference between scorching and breathing
is that scorching is the act or result of something being scorched while breathing is the act of respiration; a single instance of this.As an adjective scorching
is very hot.scorching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders
- Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.
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
