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What is a breather?

What is a breather? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Something or someone that breathes.
  2. A short break; a rest or respite.
  3. (physics) A spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
  4. (colloquial, dated) That which puts one out of breath, such as violent exercise.
  5. (mechanics) An air inlet path to the crankcase
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For my authority bears of a credent bulk, that no particular scandal once can touch, but it confounds the breather.
Now though, with the critical period past, and Reith starting to recover on his own, he could finally take a breather.
About half-way back up the hill, pausing for a breather, I spied a couple of beautiful little cockerels, hiding in the hedge.
As I was taking a bit of a breather on one of the park benches after my morning run, a man approached me.
Who wants to be a passive breather of fumes, when we now seem to be awarded a right to clean air?
The war story arc takes a slight breather as they work to save the dying man.

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