Word Meanings - RESPIRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed. Note: Respiration in the higher animals
Additional info about word: RESPIRATION
The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed. Note: Respiration in the higher animals is divided into: Internal respiration, or the interchange of oxygen and carbonic acid between the cells of the body and the bathing them, which in one sense is a process of nutrition. External respiration, or the gaseous interchange taking place in the special respiratory organs, the lungs. This constitutes respiration proper. Gamgee. In the respiration of plants oxygen is likewise absorbed and carbonic acid exhaled, but in the light this process is obscured by another process which goes on with more vigor, in which the plant inhales and absorbs carbonic acid and exhales free oxygen. (more info) 1. The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath. 2. Relief from toil or suffering: rest. Till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked. Milton. 3. Interval; intermission. Bp. Hall.
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- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - RESPONSIBLE
1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - CARBONATATION
The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - HIGHER-UP
A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. - INTRODUCTOR
An introducer. - RESPOND
1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument. 2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, - SYSTEMATIZE
To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine - OXYGENIZE
To oxidize. - RESPELL
To spell again. - CARBONIDE
A carbide. - GIVES
Fetters. - HIGHERING
Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. - OXYGENATOR
An oxidizer. - OXYGENIC
Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - RESPONSORIAL
Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman. - SYSTEMLESS
Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - MONOCARBONIC
Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. - DEOXYGENATE
To deoxidize. - HYDROCARBON
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - BERTILLON SYSTEM
A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.