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Webster 1913 Edition
Aspirate
As′pi-rate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Aspirated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Aspirating
.] [L.
aspiratus
, p. p. of aspirare
to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad
+ spirare
to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire
.] 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.As′pi-rate
,Noun.
1.
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.
2.
A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
Bentley.
3.
An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aspirate
AS'PIRATE
,Verb.
T.
To pronounce with a breathing or full emission of breath. We aspirate the words horse and house.
AS'PIRATE
,Verb.
I.
AS'PIRATE
,Noun.
AS'PIRATE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
aspirate
aspirate
English
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.
- 1972, Leonard R. Palmer, Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, page 50
- A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bentley to this entry?)
Translations
linguistics: puff of air
|
linguistics: sound produced
Verb
aspirate (third-person singular simple present aspirates, present participle aspirating, simple 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.
- 2003, Miep H. Helfrich et al. (eds.), Bone Research Protocols, page 430
- (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
- (transitive, 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.
- 1887, James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England, page 33
Synonyms
- (inhale): breathe in, inhale, inspire
Translations
to remove a liquid or gas by suction
to draw into one's lungs
linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath
Adjective
aspirate (comparative more aspirate, superlative most aspirate)
Translations
aspirated — see aspirated