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aspirate

Pronunciation

- (British, America) IPA: /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/, /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹət/, /ˈæs.pə.ɹɪt/
- (British) IPA: /ˈæs.pəɹ.eɪt/, /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/
- (America) IPA: /ˈæs.pə.ɹeɪt/, /ˈæs.pɪ.ɹeɪt/
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Noun

aspirate (plural aspirates)

(linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.
(linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- 1972, Leonard R. Palmer, Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, page 50
  We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.

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Verb

aspirate (aspirates, present participle aspirating; past and past participle aspirated)

(transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- 2003, Miep H. Helfrich et al. (eds.), Bone Research Protocols, page 430
  Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
(transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
(ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant.
- 1887, James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England, page 33
  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.

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aspirate

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