Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Functioning in exhalation.
- noun An organ, such as a clam's siphon, used for exhalation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of exhaling or emitting.
- noun That which exhales or is exhaled.
- noun Also, less properly, exhalent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
exhaling (emitting a fluid) - noun Something that emits a fluid
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Examples
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Vel per propriam affectionem, vel per consensum, cum vapores exhalant in cerebrum.
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Vapores crassi et nigri, a ventriculo in cerebrum exhalant.
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This water passes over the gills where two things happen before the water is returned to the environment by the exhalant siphon.
Mollusca 2007
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Accedit ad hoc, quod natura in contemplatione, cerebro prorsus cordique intenta, stomachum heparque destituit, unde ex alimentis male coctis, sanguis crassus et niger efficitur, dum nimio otio membrorum superflui vapores non exhalant.
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This is an important step since the inhalant and exhalant canals are located right beside one another.
Mollusca 2007
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In the latter class there are vast differences, but uniformly intellect is prominent above sensibility; human faith and love are _exhalant_, aspirant, and rendered of a vapory subtilty by the interpenetration with them of the Olympian sunlight of thought and imagination.
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Through haunted nights he had fought maddening memories of Io's shadowed eyes, of the exhalant, irresistible femininity of her, of the pulses of her heart against his on that wild and wonderful night in the flood; and he had won to an armed peace, in which the outposts of his spirit were ever on guard against the recurrent thoughts of her.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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"La femelle du tigre, exhalant l'odeur du carnage, fait retentir les solitudes de l'Afrique de ses miaulements affreux, et paraît remplie d'attraits à ses cruels amants."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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"In puteis est remedium, quale et crebri specus praebent: conceptum enim spiritum exhalant: quod in certis notatur oppidis, quae minus quatiuntur, crebris ad eluviem cuniculis cavata."
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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This is an important step since the inhalant and exhalant canals are located right beside one another.
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