EXHALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exhale mean? 

• EXHALE (verb)
  The verb EXHALE has 2 senses:

1. expel air

2. give out (breath or an odor)

  Familiarity information: EXHALE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXHALE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exhale    ... he / she / it exhales   
Past simple: exhaled   
Past participle: exhaled   
-ing form: exhaling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel air

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

breathe out; exhale; expire

Context example:

Exhale when you lift the weight

Hypernyms (to "exhale" is one way to...):

breathe; respire; suspire; take a breath (draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exhale"):

snort (make a snorting sound by exhaling hard)

blow (exhale hard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

inhale (draw in (air))

Derivation:

exhalation (the act of expelling air from the lungs)

exhalation (exhaled breath)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give out (breath or an odor)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

emanate; exhale; give forth

Context example:

The chimney exhales a thick smoke

Hypernyms (to "exhale" is one way to...):

breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

exhalation (exhaled breath)

 Context examples 

A test of lung function, the FEV1 is the volume exhaled during the first second of a forced expiratory maneuver started from the level of total lung capacity.

(Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second, NCI Thesaurus)

A test of lung function, the FEV6 is the volume exhaled during six seconds of a forced expiratory maneuver started from the level of total lung capacity.

(Forced Expiratory Volume in 6 Seconds, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum volume of air a subject can exhale from the lungs after a tidal exhalation.

(Expiratory Reserve Volume, NCI Thesaurus)

A valve designed to allow the escape of exhaled gases from a respirator or respiration system.

(Exhalation Valve Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Smoke that is emitted from burning tobacco, including cigarette, pipe and cigar, and from tobacco smoke exhaled by smokers.

(Environmental tobacco smoke, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum volume of air that can be exhaled after forced maximum inhalation.

(Forced Vital Capacity, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase in the fraction of the forced vital capacity that is exhaled in a specific number of seconds.

(Increased Forced Expiratory Volume, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum volume of air that can be exhaled after slow maximum inhalation as a proportion of the predicted normal value.

(Percent Predicted Slow Vital Capacity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) - one of the lung function testing parameters measuring the rate at which a patient can exhale for vital lung capacity evaluation.

(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus)

A person inhales and exhales through a device called a manometer, and the pressures are recorded by a computer.

(Maximum inspiratory pressure test, NCI Dictionary)