aspirate
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Is aspirate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
2. (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.Examples: "We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.Examples: "Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube."transitive
2. (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.Synonyms: breathe in, inhale, inspiretransitive
3. (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.Examples: "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."ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary