different between aspirate vs encourage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin asp?r?tus, perfect passive participle of asp?r? (“breathe upon”). Doublet of aspire.

Pronunciation

• noun and adjective
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æs.p??.?t/, /?æs.p?.??t/, /?æs.p?.??t/
• verb
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?æs.p??.e?t/, /?æs.p?.?e?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?æs.p?.?e?t/, /?æs.p?.?e?t/
• • Rhymes: -æsp??e?t
• (UK) Hyphenation: as?pir?ate
• (US) Hyphenation: as?pi?rate

Noun

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.

3. A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
   • a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead

     But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ??????? and ??????? ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) åpnoelv and ???????

Translations

Verb

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 one's lungs.
3. (transitive, intransitive, 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.

Synonyms

• (inhale): breathe in, inhale, inspire

Translations

Adjective

aspirate (comparative more aspirate, superlative most aspirate)

1. Synonym of aspirated

Translations

Related terms

• aspire
• aspiration
• aspirational
• aspirator
• nonaspirate
• unaspirate

Anagrams

• parasite, pastiera, septaria

Italian

Verb

aspirate

1. second-person plural present indicative of aspirare
2. second-person plural imperative of aspirare
3. feminine plural of aspirato

Anagrams

• apertasi, asperità, espatria, espirata, pastiera, raspiate, ripesata, satrapie, separati, spariate, sterpaia

Latin

Verb

asp?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of asp?r?

English

Alternative forms

• incourage (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier from en- +? corage "courage". Displaced native Middle English belden, bielden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bieldan (“to encourage”)), Middle English bealden, balden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bealdian (“to encourage, make bold”)), Middle English herten (“to encourage, enhearten”) (from Old English hiertan, hyrtan (“to enhearten”)), Old English elnian (“to encourage, strengthen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• Hyphenation: en?cour?age

Verb

encourage (third-person singular simple present encourages, present participle encouraging, simple past and past participle encouraged) (transitive)

1. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

   I encouraged him during his race.

2. To spur on, strongly recommend.

   We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

3. To foster, give help or patronage

   The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

Synonyms

• bield
• embolden

Antonyms

• becourage
• discourage

Derived terms

• encouragement
• encouraging
• encouragingly

Related terms

• courage

Translations

French

Verb

encourage

1. inflection of encourager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. singular imperative