Inspiration vs. Expiration — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Inspiration and Expiration
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Inspiration
The excitement of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity
A singer who found her inspiration in popular songs of the 1920s.
Expiration
The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid
The expiration of the lease
Inspiration
The condition of being so excited
Sat down to write in a sudden burst of inspiration.
Expiration
The exhalation of breath from the lungs
At the end of expiration there is still a slight inflation in the lungs
Inspiration
The quality of being so excited, as manifested in something
A painting full of inspiration.
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Expiration
The act of coming to a close; termination
The expiration of a contract.
Inspiration
A person or thing that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention
Gandhi has been an inspiration to political reformers for decades.
Expiration
The act of breathing out; exhalation.
Inspiration
Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that is inspired
Had an inspiration and saw a way to solve the problem.
Expiration
(Archaic) Death.
Inspiration
Divine guidance or influence exerted directly on a human mind or soul.
Expiration
The act of expiring.
Inspiration
The act of drawing in, especially the inhalation of air into the lungs.
Expiration
The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth
Respiration consists of inspiration and expiration
Inspiration
The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.
Expiration
Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
Inspiration
(countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
Expiration
(euphemism) The last emission of breath; death.
Inspiration
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
Expiration
A cessation, extinction, ending
Inspiration
The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
She was waiting for inspiration to write a book.
Usage notes: In this sense, it may be followed by the adposition to in relation to the person being influenced, and for or to in relation to the idea or activity:
Expiration
That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
Inspiration
A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
The trip was an inspiration to her for writing a book.
Expiration
The act of expiring
The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.
Inspiration
A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
Expiration
The last emission of breath; death.
Inspiration
The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; - the opposite of expiration.
Expiration
That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration.
Inspiration
The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations.
Expiration
A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
Before the expiration of thy time.
Inspiration
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
The age which we now live in is not an age of inspiration and impulses.
Expiration
A coming to an end of a contract period;
The expiry of his driver's license
Inspiration
Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
Expiration
Euphemistic expressions for death;
Thousands mourned his passing
Inspiration
A product of your creative thinking and work;
He had little respect for the inspirations of other artists
After years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality
Expiration
The act of expelling air from the lungs
Inspiration
A sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
Inspiration
(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings;
They believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance
Inspiration
Arousing to a particular emotion or action
Inspiration
The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
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