inhaler
English
An inhaler
Noun
inhaler (plural inhalers)
- One who inhales.
- 1963, Consumers Union of United States, Consumer reports, volume 28, page 277:
- The exposure of the mouse lungs to smoke was, of course, relatively mild as compared with the exposure of the lungs of a human smoke-inhaler who gets true cancer.
- (medicine) A device with a canister holding medicine (either in powder or gas form) which is sprayed and inhaled by the patient, often for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases.
- Hyponyms: dry powder inhaler, metered-dose inhaler
- 1976 April 10, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
- Gay peep shows -- adult magazines, movies, locker room, inhalers.
Derived terms
Translations
canister containing medicine
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪnˌɦaː.lər/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: in‧ha‧ler
Noun
inhaler c (plural inhalers, diminutive inhalertje n)
- overtaker (a driver who overtakes another vehicle)
- Inhalers die de vluchtstrook gebruiken als inhaalstrook riskeren een forse boete.
- Overtakers who use the emergency lane as an overtaking lane risk a hefty fine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈɦeː.lər/
- Hyphenation: in‧ha‧ler
French
Pronunciation
Conjugation
Conjugation of inhaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | inhaler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | inhalant /i.na.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | inhalé /i.na.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | inhale /i.nal/ |
inhales /i.nal/ |
inhale /i.nal/ |
inhalons /i.na.lɔ̃/ |
inhalez /i.na.le/ |
inhalent /i.nal/ |
| imperfect | inhalais /i.na.lɛ/ |
inhalais /i.na.lɛ/ |
inhalait /i.na.lɛ/ |
inhalions /i.na.ljɔ̃/ |
inhaliez /i.na.lje/ |
inhalaient /i.na.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | inhalai /i.na.le/ |
inhalas /i.na.la/ |
inhala /i.na.la/ |
inhalâmes /i.na.lam/ |
inhalâtes /i.na.lat/ |
inhalèrent /i.na.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | inhalerai /i.nal.ʁe/ |
inhaleras /i.nal.ʁa/ |
inhalera /i.nal.ʁa/ |
inhalerons /i.nal.ʁɔ̃/ |
inhalerez /i.nal.ʁe/ |
inhaleront /i.nal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | inhalerais /i.nal.ʁɛ/ |
inhalerais /i.nal.ʁɛ/ |
inhalerait /i.nal.ʁɛ/ |
inhalerions /i.na.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
inhaleriez /i.na.lə.ʁje/ |
inhaleraient /i.nal.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | inhale /i.nal/ |
inhales /i.nal/ |
inhale /i.nal/ |
inhalions /i.na.ljɔ̃/ |
inhaliez /i.na.lje/ |
inhalent /i.nal/ |
| imperfect2 | inhalasse /i.na.las/ |
inhalasses /i.na.las/ |
inhalât /i.na.la/ |
inhalassions /i.na.la.sjɔ̃/ |
inhalassiez /i.na.la.sje/ |
inhalassent /i.na.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | inhale /i.nal/ |
— | inhalons /i.na.lɔ̃/ |
inhalez /i.na.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “inhaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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