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Definition of Aspirate
1. Noun. A consonant pronounced with aspiration.
2. Verb. Remove as if by suction. "Aspirate the wound"
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Related verbs: Draw In, Suck In
3. Verb. Pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds.
Derivative terms: Aspiration
4. Verb. Suck in (air).
Definition of Aspirate
1. v. t. To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
2. n. A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
3. a. Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath.
Definition of Aspirate
1. Noun. (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant. ¹
2. Noun. (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant. ¹
6. Adjective. aspirated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aspirate
1. to pronounce with an initial release of breath [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Medical Definition of Aspirate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspirate
Literary usage of Aspirate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"In poetry, as in elocution, the repellant aspirate imitates any thing that hisses ;
for example : He would have spoke, But hiss for hiss returned with ..."
2. New Science of Elocution: The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in by S. S. Hamill (1886)
"aspirate. ' The aspirate is that quality of voice in which the breath is sent forth
... Without command of the aspirate Quality it is impossible to give ..."
3. Essays Philological and Critical: Selected from the Papers by James Hadley (1873)
"Did that language possess aspirate mutes ; and if so, what were they, and how
were they ... The Sanskrit has the greatest abundance of aspirate mutes. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of permutation between a and tbo aspirate h, analogous to tbe variants ...
111. there aro aomo variants w'th the aspirate | , A, which recalls i. ..."
5. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"Of the sounds just enumerated, p, b, t, d, k, g, s, z, are called LENE ; /, v,f>,
5, K, y, a, £, are called aspirate. These terms are used by grammarians ..."
6. Practical Elements of Elocution by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, James Whitford Bashford (1903)
"The aspirate (from aspiro, to breathe) is a breathy, whispered Quality. The resonance
varies according to the position of the organs and the distended and ..."
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