OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15715

aspirate

/ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aspirada
A sound produced by such a puff of air.
We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
Phrases
No hay frases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 15716

aspirate

/ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aspirar • chupar
To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
aspirar • inhalar
To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
aspirar
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.
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…