exhaleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈheɪl/
• 韻: -eɪl

動詞

exhale (三人称単数 現在形 exhales, 現在分詞 exhaling, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   • 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 1011870211, page 29:

     Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales.

5. (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.

   The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

同意語

• (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (古風な用法)
• (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (古風な用法)

反意語

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

派生語

• exhalation

関連する語

• inhalation
• inhale
• inhaler