exhalation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=ha=la=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

exhalation, n. [L. exhalatio: cf. F. exhalaison, exhalation.].

•  The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise
  From hill or steaming lake."  [1913 Webster]
•  A bright phenomenon; a meteor.  [1913 Webster]

  "I shall fall
  Like a bright exhalation in the evening."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exhalation, n.
1 a an expiration of air. b a puff of breath.
2 a mist, vapour.
3 an emanation or effluvium.

Etymology

ME f. L exhalatio (as EXHALE)

THESAURUS

exhalation

air, breath, effluvium, emanation, emission, evaporation, exhaust, expiration, fog, fume, gas, mist, puff, respiration, steam, suspiration, vapor, whiff

ROGET THESAURUS

exhalation

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.

Vaporization

N vaporization, volatilization, gasification, evaporation, vaporation, distillation, cupellation, cohobation, sublimination, exhalation, volatility, vaporizer, still, retort, fumigation, steaming, bay salt, chloride of sodium, mister, spray, bubble, effervescence, ', volatilized, reeking, volatile, evaporable, vaporizable, bubbly, effervescent, boiling, Specific Fluids.

Odor

N odor, smell, odorament, scent, effluvium, emanation, exhalation, fume, essence, trail, nidor, redolence, sense of smell, scent, act of smelling, olfaction, olfactories, fragrance, odorant, bloodhound, hound, spoor, odorous, odoriferous, smelling, reeking, foul-smelling, strong- scented, redolent, graveolent, nidorous, pungent, putrid, foul, olfactory, quick-scented.