different between aspirational vs aspirate

English

Etymology

aspiration +? -al

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æsp???e???n?l/

Adjective

aspirational (comparative more aspirational, superlative most aspirational)

1. Being ambitious.
2. Desiring success.
3. (law) Expressing a hope or intention but not creating a legally binding obligation.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

aspirational (plural aspirationals)

1. A person with aspirations.

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?