Dictionary

aspirate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/ (UK, US)
• /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/ (UK, US)
• /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/ (UK, US)
• (US) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.

Meanings

1. Synonym of aspirated.
   • […]and there was in Late Middle Bengali a tendency to drop aspiration of non-initial aspirate stops. 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, volume 1, Calcutta University Press, page 261:

Forms

Relateds

aspirational · aspiration · nonaspirate · asperate · unaspirate · aspirator · aspire

Synonyms

aspirated

aspirate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/ (UK, US)
• /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/ (UK, US)
• /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/ (UK, US)
• (US) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.

Meanings

1. The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
2. A sound produced by such a puff of air.
   • We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant. 1972, Leonard R. Palmer, Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, page 50:
3. A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
   • a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ἀπηθεῖν and ἀπήθημα ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) ἀφηθεῖν and αφήθημα
4. A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.

Forms

Translations (22)

fi henkäisy (linguistics: puff of air) · ja 帯気音 (linguistics: sound produced) · cmn 送氣音 /送气音 (linguistics: sound produced) · es aspiración (linguistics: puff of air) · ru придыха́тельный звук (linguistics: sound produced) · nl aspiratie (linguistics: puff of air) · ru придыха́тельный согла́сный (linguistics: sound produced) · fi aspiraatta (linguistics: sound produced) · fr aspiration (linguistics: puff of air) · es aspirada (linguistics: sound produced) · ja 有気音 (linguistics: sound produced) · ru придыха́ние (linguistics: puff of air) · cmn 送氣 /送气 (linguistics: puff of air) · pl aspiracja (linguistics: puff of air) · fi aspiraatio (linguistics: puff of air) · sk aspirácia (linguistics: sound produced) · bn মহাপ্রাণ বর্ণ (linguistics: sound produced) · ru аспира́ция (linguistics: puff of air) · de Behauchung (linguistics: puff of air) · de Aspiration (linguistics: puff of air) · pl aspirata (linguistics: sound produced) · sk aspirácia (linguistics: puff of air)

aspirate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/ (US)
• (Australia) audio
• /ˈæs.pə.ɹeɪt/ (US)
• /ˈæs.pəɹ.eɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
   • Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube. 2003, Miep H. Helfrich et al., editors, Bone Research Protocols, page 430:
2. (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
3. (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
   • The autopsy found that the casualty had aspirated in her sleep.
4. (ambitransitive) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
   • There is no doubt that the uncertainty about the letter H, which much defaces English in some classes of the community, is due entirely to Norman influence, for Frenchmen could not aspirate. Three words—hour, honor, heir, with compounds of them such as hourly, honourable, heirship, and the like, are quite enough to puzzle people who find H sometimes sounded, sometimes not. 1887, James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England, page 33:

Forms

Deriveds

microaspirate · deaspirate · bronchoaspirate · reaspirate · lipoaspirate

Synonyms

breathe in (inhale) · inhale (inhale) · inspire (inhale)

Translations (41)

ru аспири́ровать (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · vi bật hơi (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · pt aspirar (to draw into one's lungs) · fr aspirer (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · es aspirar (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · cmn 抽空 (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · sk vysať (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · fr inhaler (to draw into one's lungs) · pt aspirar (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · ru произноси́ть с придыханием (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · es aspirar (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · fi henkäistä (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · ga asúigh (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · fi imeä (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · tr aspire etmek (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · fi aspiroida (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · cmn 吸入 (to draw into one's lungs) · pl aspirować (to draw into one's lungs) · it aspirare (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · it pompare (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · ca aspirar (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · es chupar (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · cs vdechnout (to draw into one's lungs) · es inhalar (to draw into one's lungs) · ga análaigh (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · fi aspiroida (to draw into one's lungs) · pt inalar (to draw into one's lungs) · cmn 送气 (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · pl aspirować (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · es aspirar (to draw into one's lungs) · sk aspirovať (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · no aspirere (linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath) · fr pomper (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · sk vysávať (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · sk vdýchnuť (to draw into one's lungs) · fi vetää henkeen (to draw into one's lungs) · fr inspirer (to draw into one's lungs) · fi aspiroida (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · pt aspirar (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · ru отса́сывать (to remove a liquid or gas by suction) · fi imaista (to remove a liquid or gas by suction)