different between inhaler vs exhale

English

Etymology

inhale +? -er

Noun

inhaler (plural inhalers)

1. One who inhales.
   • 1963, Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports (volume 28, page 277)

     The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.

2. (medicine) A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.

Derived terms

• metered-dose inhaler
• dry powder inhaler

Translations

Anagrams

• hernial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.na.le/
• Homophones: inhalé, inhalée, inhalées, inhalés, inhalez

Verb

inhaler

1. to inhale.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “inhaler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

inh?ler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of inh?l?

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

inhaler

1. imperative of inhalere

English

Etymology

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ks?he?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Verb

exhale (third-person singular simple present exhales, present participle exhaling, simple past and past participle exhaled)

1. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
2. (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
3. (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
   • 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray 2009, p. 9:

     Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.

4. (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).

   The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
5. (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.

   The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

Synonyms

• (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
• (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)

Antonyms

• (expel (transitive)): inbreathe, breathe in, inhale
• (breathe out (intransitive)): inbreathe, breathe in, inspire

Derived terms

• exhalation

Related terms

• inhalation
• inhale
• inhaler

Translations

Noun

exhale (plural exhales)

1. An exhalation.
   • 2009, David A. Clark, Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice

     Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.

Further reading

• exhale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exhale at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Verb

exhale

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhaler
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhaler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhaler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhaler
5. second-person singular imperative of exhaler

Portuguese

Verb

exhale

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of exhalar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of exhalar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of exhalar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of exhalar

Spanish

Verb

exhale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhalar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhalar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhalar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhalar.