Breeze vs. Breathe — What's the Difference?

A light current of air; a gentle wind.

Take air into the lungs and then expel it, especially as a regular physiological process

Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 27 knots (5 to 31 miles per hour; 7 to 50 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

To inhale and exhale air using the lungs

(Informal) Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.

To inhale air or another gas

The refuse left when coke or charcoal is made.

To exhale air or another gas

To move quickly, smoothly, or easily

To exchange gases as part of respiration or photosynthesis

To progress swiftly or easily

To use air in combustion

A light, gentle wind.

To be alive; live

(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

To pause to rest or regain breath

(cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.

To move or blow gently

An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.

To allow air to pass through

A brief workout for a racehorse.

To be exhaled or emanated, as a fragrance.

A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

To be manifested or suggested, as an idea or feeling

Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.

To reach fullness of flavor and aroma through exposure to air. Used chiefly of wine.

To move casually, in a carefree manner.

To inhale and exhale (air or a gas such as oxygen) during respiration.

(weather) To blow gently.

To inhale (an aroma, for example)

To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.

To exhale or blow out

(of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.

To take in or exchange (air or gases)

(intransitive) To buzz.

To impart or instill

A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; - called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.

To utter, especially quietly

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.

To make apparent or manifest; suggest

An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.

To allow (a person or animal) to rest or regain breath.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

(Linguistics) To utter with a voiceless exhalation of air.

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

To draw in (air) for combustion.

To blow gently.

(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

A slight wind (usually refreshing);

(intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.

Any undertaking that is easy to do;

(transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.

Blow gently and lightly;

To live.

To proceed quickly and easily

(transitive) To draw something into the lungs.

(intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.

(transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.

(transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.

(transitive) To whisper quietly.

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.

To inspire (scripture).

(intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.

To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.

(transitive) To stop, to give a horse an opportunity to catch its breath.

(transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.

To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

To take breath; to rest from action.

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

To inject by breathing; to infuse; - with into.

To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

To express; to manifest; to give forth.

To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.

To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

To put out of breath; to exhaust.

To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs;

Be alive;

Impart as if by breathing;

Allow the passage of air through;

Utter or tell;

Manifest or evince;

Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

Reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked;

Expel (gases or odors)