Synonymer
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
- A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
Verb
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- (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.
Adjektiv
Exempel
- We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
- Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
- 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.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | aspirated | Imperfekt | aspirated |
| Presensparticip | aspirating | Plural | aspirates |
| Komparativ | more aspirate | Superlativ | most aspirate |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | aspirates |