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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
respire .
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Examples
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In warmer regions, the vine burns - or "respires" - malic acid, transforming it into water, carbon dioxide and, most important, energy, which the plant uses for other physiological functions.
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Numerous cases could be given among the lower animals of the same organ performing at the same time wholly distinct functions; thus in the larva of the dragon-fly and in the fish Cobites the alimentary canal respires, digests, and excretes.
A New Book 2010
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Numerous cases could be given among the lower animals of the same organ performing at the same time wholly distinct functions; thus in the larva of the dragon-fly and in the fish Cobites the alimentary canal respires, digests, and excretes.
A New Book 2010
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Here where nothing respires, nor is any drawing of energy invoked.
The Forsaken 2010
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If it is alive, it respires--sugar combines with oxygen, heat and motion result.
Archive 2009-02-01 doyle 2009
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If it is alive, it respires--sugar combines with oxygen, heat and motion result.
A Topologist's View of the Body doyle 2009
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Shades of Araby did you feel the wind sliding at your heels, tracing the sunlight that fell on your ankles, where the asphalt meets the curb and the river respires?
In Memory of Karin Berg 1936-2006 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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Shades of Araby did you feel the wind sliding at your heels, tracing the sunlight that fell on your ankles, where the asphalt meets the curb and the river respires?
Archive 2009-01-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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So far no real controversy--I can hold on to a very strong theory that explains just about all we know in biology, I can dabble in the Gospels and you might best run away if you see me walking around mumbling about Mark reasonably ending at 16:8, and anyone who spends time outside knows life is weird enough that everything that respires just might all be cousins.
My UbD essential question of the day doyle 2009
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An organism that respires a molecule of glucose anaerobically obtains 47 units of energy while the aerobic pathway generates 686 units of energy.
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