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Respirator   Listen
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Respirator  n.  A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.






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"Respirator" Quotes from Famous Books



... know what was meant by full decontamination procedure. But since the crew was emphatically ordered to leave, a respirator might not provide much safety. Of the two dangers, leaving the ...
— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... Grey Came to West Point that he himself might hail The future hero in some proper way Consistent with his lineage. With him came A judge, a poet, and a brave array Of aunts and uncles, bearing each a name, Eyeglass and respirator with the same. ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... prolonged gas bombardment, found the gas masks provided by the High Command quite inadequate. It was left for General Diaz some months later to order the equipment of the whole Italian Army with the British box respirator. ...
— With British Guns in Italy - A Tribute to Italian Achievement • Hugh Dalton

... two india rubber pipes leave this box and join a sort of tent which holds the nose and mouth; one is to introduce fresh air, the other to let out the foul, and the tongue closes one or the other according to the wants of the respirator. But I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom of the sea, was obliged to shut my head, like that of a diver in a ball of copper; and it is to this ball of copper that the two pipes, the inspirator ...
— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

... gas is never employed by army dentists. (2) No, you need not take your respirator with you. You hire the anaesthetist's at a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 19, 1917 • Various

... here for my respirator, but by the time it arrived at the house it was too late. Nothing had been omitted while he was still struggling with the spark of life. When that went out what was ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... out to take a walk on a damp day thus accoutred: An extraordinary bulk and weight of clothes, and over all an india-rubber mackintosh; on her feet are those abominations called goloshes; over her mouth she has stuck a respirator, and over her head and shoulders she carries an enormous umbrella. The windows and doors of this lady's house are always kept shut, and rendered hermetically sealed by woollen sand-bags and other oxygen-banishing contrivances. Is it any wonder that she is pale and flabby in face, that ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 • Various

... "Leicester Mail," who came to see us in trenches, and was introduced to the tunnels and all the "grim horrors" of trench warfare. It seemed curious to see a civilian in a grey suit, adorned with a steel helmet and box respirator, ...
— The Fifth Leicestershire - A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, - T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. • J.D. Hills

... more, grabbing my bayonet, which was detached from the rifle, I gave the alarm by banging an empty shell case, which was hanging near the periscope. At the same instant, gongs started ringing down the trench, the signal for Tommy to don his respirator, or smoke helmet, as ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey



Words linked to "Respirator" :   mouthpiece, mask, ventilator, breathing device, gasmask, inhalator, iron lung, gas helmet, breathing machine, breathing apparatus



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