Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
aspirate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
aspirate . - adjective phonology Pronounced with an
audible breath .
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Examples
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We know that the first urine aspirated from the fetal bladder has been there for some time and is not typically predictive of underlying renal function.
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It just occurred to me that the variety of realisations of the reconstructed voiced aka aspirated and voiceless stop series across daughter families might instead reflect varying phonetic realisations across PIE dialects of a rather different phonetic phenomenon.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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If phonetic, the word indicated should, according to Landa's alphabet, be aspirated, which is found to be true of one of the forms given by Perez.
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The difference is best illustrated by reference to the French so-called aspirated
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Okay, it's not a performance car, but churning out about 79kW (naturally aspirated, that is) the 1.8 does what it needs to.
unknown title 2009
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Languages like English rely on certain syllables being aspirated, that is the speaker uses tiny and subtly differentiated bursts of breath to make the sound: for instance we distinguish
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Atelier Ted Noton of the Netherlands offers an alluring vision of high-class kitsch — a "vertical rainbow" of Swarovski crystals falling from the top of the rotunda to a pool on the floor, where they would be "aspirated" back to the top to descend again.
Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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Atelier Ted Noton of the Netherlands offers an alluring vision of high-class kitsch — a "vertical rainbow" of Swarovski crystals falling from the top of the rotunda to a pool on the floor, where they would be "aspirated" back to the top to descend again.
Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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Atelier Ted Noton of the Netherlands offers an alluring vision of high-class kitsch — a "vertical rainbow" of Swarovski crystals falling from the top of the rotunda to a pool on the floor, where they would be "aspirated" back to the top to descend again.
Ramping Up Wright's Vision Ada Louise Huxtable 2010
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It may be that this putative prosodic breathy voice played a (limited) morphological role analogous to ablaut or n-infixation, explaining to some extent the apparent voiceless/voiced ("aspirated") root doublets.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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