Definizione monolingua

aspirate

aspirate (third-person singular simple present aspirates, present participle aspirating, simple past and past participle aspirated)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into ones lungs.
3. (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.

aspirate (plural aspirates)

1. (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.
2. (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.

aspirate (comparative more aspirate, superlative most aspirate)

1. aspirated

Definizione dizionario aspirate

	aspirare
	to remove a liquid or gas by suction

	pompare
	to remove a liquid or gas by suction

Altri significati:

linguistics: puff of air

to draw into one's lungs

(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.

(linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.

(transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.

linguistics: sound produced

aspirated

linguistics: to produce an audible puff of breath

(phonetics) an aspirate

suck (or draw) out

(linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.