different between snorting vs inhalation

English

Verb

snorting

1. present participle of snort

Noun

snorting (plural snortings)

1. A snort sound or action.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.

Anagrams

• string on

English

Etymology

inhale +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nh??le???n/, [??n???le??n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: in?ha?la?tion

Noun

inhalation (countable and uncountable, plural inhalations)

1. The act of inhaling; inbreathing.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.

2. The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

Translations

See also

• inhale

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.na.la.sj??/

Noun

inhalation f (plural inhalations)

1. inhalation (all meanings)

Further reading

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