Meaning

6 senses
  1. Something or someone that breathes.

    Atmende

  2. Something or someone that breathes.

    (specifically)A heavy breather.

  3. (colloquial)A short break; a rest or respite.

    After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.

    Verschnaufpause, Atempause

    переды́шкаperedýška

    перепочи́нокperepočýnok

    a short respite

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

  5. (colloquial, dated)That which puts one out of breath, such as vigorous exercise.

  6. An air inlet path to the crankcase

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Take a breather.

    Зроби перерву. — triantafillou

    ruВозьми перерыв. — odexed

  2. Why don't we take a breather?

  3. Let's take a breather.

    ruДавайте передохнём. — marafon

  4. I need a breather.

    ruМне нужно передохнуть. — Wezel

  5. Pietro took a five minute breather.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
short break:
Русский
By meaning 1
short break:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
something that breathes:
short break:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: breathers
Singularbreather
Pluralbreathers

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
short break:hiatus
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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