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breather

noun
/ˈbɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From breathe + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).

  1. derived from breth — “breath”
  2. inherited from brethen — “to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”
  3. suffixed as breather — “breathe + er”

Definitions

  1. Something or someone that breathes.

  2. A short break

    A short break; a rest or respite.

    • After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
    • I took a breather and decided not to ruin my life

  3. A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.

    2. An air inlet path to the crankcase

The neighborhood

Derived

airbreather, breather switch, chest breather, firebreather, fire-breather, interbreather, mouth-breather, mouth breather, multibreather, phonobreather, take a breather

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for breather. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA