English Dictionary

breathful

noun

That which is smelled or sensed in one breath. / A quantity that is inhaled in one breath. / The amount spoken on one breath. / A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.

The garden was filled with the breathful of blooming flowers.

意味（1）

That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.

Once you've swirled, close your eyes and take a good breathful of the wine.

意味（2）

A quantity that is inhaled in one breath.

Approximately I/5 of the oxygen in each breathful of air is absorbed by the body.

意味（3）

The amount spoken on one breath.

Estelle lay in bed, groggily complaining against the gas light, and Miriam teased her, and Estelle told her to quit or get the devil out of here, but Miriam wouldn't quit, and Estelle thrashed around and pushed her and soon they had a little fight and then they both lay and told about their men, Estelle a breathful about her Dick, Miriam the next breathful about her Sammy.

意味（4）

A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.

A fifteen-month gap separates the recording of the The First Part from The Third Part, but the music could just as easily be two bubbles blown from the same fish on the same breathful of water.