Definitions for gasping
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1. gaspingnoun

   The act by which one gasps.

   Sundry violent gaspings and strainings. uE000241195uE001 Herman Melville.

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1. gasping

   Paralanguage, also known as vocalics, is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, by using techniques such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously. The study of paralanguage is known as paralinguistics and was invented by George L. Trager in the 1950s, while he was working at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. His colleagues at the time included Henry Lee Smith, Charles F. Hockett (working with him on using descriptive linguistics as a model for paralanguage), Edward T. Hall developing proxemics, and Ray Birdwhistell developing kinesics. Trager published his conclusions in 1958, 1960 and 1961.His work has served as a basis for all later research, especially those investigating the relationship between paralanguage and culture (since paralanguage is learned, it differs by language and culture). A good example is the work of John J. Gumperz on language and social identity, which specifically describes paralinguistic differences between participants in intercultural interactions. The film Gumperz made for BBC in 1982, Multiracial Britain: Cross talk, does a particularly good job of demonstrating cultural differences in paralanguage and their impact on relationships. Paralinguistic information, because it is phenomenal, belongs to the external speech signal (Ferdinand de Saussure's parole) but not to the arbitrary conmodality]]. Even vocal language has some paralinguistic as well as linguistic properties that can be seen (lip reading, McGurk effect), and even felt, e.g. by the Tadoma method.

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1. Gasping

   of Gasp

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gasping in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gasping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of gasping in a Sentence

1. Saki Tsaki:

   The baby was coming out, i kept telling her, ‘Take deep breaths in.’ She was screaming and gasping a lot for air.

2. De La Cruz:

   Republican leadership tends to flood cash behind moderate candidates who will take orders from leadership, and they leave conservatives often gasping for oxygen—conservatives who are strong, viable candidates, but they leave them severely underfunded, i think leadership should stay out of primaries…when they get involved in primaries, they’re almost consistently wrong.

3. Alvin Williams:

   Nobody had any type of human emotion or sympathy for this dying man gasping for his last breaths, and then you detain him worse than a caged animal. Not only for Columbus, Ohio, I'm saying this for all the police forces across this land. Your hunting season is over.

4. Police Kavita Jalan:

   The eight-year-old boy was found by police gasping between the dead bodies.

5. Verity Trueman:

   Any form of activity before used to leave me in pain, I could barely climb a flight of stairs without gasping for breath, now I have a whole wardrobe dedicated to gym clothes. I enjoy Pilates and spinning classes, and I always feel great afterwards.

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