Aspirate

Definition: Aspirate

Aspirate

Noun

1. A consonant pronounced with aspiration.

Verb

1. Remove as if by suction; "draw in air".

2. Pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds.

3. Suck in air.

Date "aspirate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Note: Aspirate \As"pi*rate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Aspirated; Aspirating.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	Fluid withdrawn from a lump, often a cyst, or a nipple. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Aspirate

Synonyms: draw in (v), suck in (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Voice	Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aspirate

English words defined with "aspirate": Aspirated, Aspirating ♦ Epi-. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Aspirate greche e geminate latine (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Entamoeba histolytica in liver aspirate. Trichrome stain. Protozoon, ameba, parasite. Credit: CDC.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Microscopic demonstration of eggs in the stool or in duodenal aspirate is the most practical diagnostic method. (references)
		Another commonly used indicator of the magnitude of hemorrhage is estimation of the volume of blood lost, often quantitated as the number of units transfused or as a transfusion rate. Although there is general agreement that the volume of blood loss is important, there is substantial uncertainty about the best way to estimate it. Persistent red blood in the nasogastric aspirate correlates with an increased requirement for subsequent transfusion. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Aspirate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Aspirate" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	82.35%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	11.76%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	5.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

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Language		Translations for "aspirate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tingull i aspiruar, shqiptoj me h. (various references)

Arabic		‏ملفوظ بمل ء النفس, ‏لفظ بملء النفس, ‏الدم (blood). (various references)

Chinese		吐�" (Aspirated, Aspirating). (various references)

Czech		aspirovat, aspiráta. (various references)

Danish		aspireret lyd, aspirata. (various references)

Dutch		geaspireerde klank, blaasklank. (various references)

Farsi		حلقی , حرف Hاول کلمه که بطورحلقی تلفظمیشود, خالی کردن (Deplete, Discharge, Disgorge, Empty, Evacuate, Hollow, Purge, Vacate, Vent), ازحلق اداء کردن , بانفس تلفظکردن . (various references)

Finnish		munuaisen neulabiopsia (kidney needle biopsy, needle aspirate of kidney). (various references)

French		aspirer (aspire, aspire to), aspirée, aspiré (aspired), son aspiré. (various references)

German		aspirieren (aspire). (various references)

Greek		γράμμα δασυνόμενο, δασύσ (shaggy), δασύνω, δασύς (dense, hirsute, thcik), δασεία, δασύ γράμμα. (various references)

Hungarian		h-hang, hehezet. (various references)

Indonesian		aspirat. (various references)

Italian		aspirato, aspirata, aspirare (aspire, breathe in, exhaust, inhale, pretend, suck, suck in, suck up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		有気音 (an aspirate), 吸い出す (to aspirate, to suckout). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すい� す (to aspirate, to suckout), ゆうきお�" (an aspirate). (various references)

Manx		ennalit (aspirated), ennalaghey (aspiration, breathe, breathing apparatus), corockle ennalit, corockle boggit, boggit (afloat, aspirated, moistened, moisture, softened, steeped), boggaghey (dissolve, ease, elide, elision, macerate, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, steep, tone down). (various references)

Pig Latin		aspirateay

Portuguese		som aspirado. (various references)

Romanian		aspirat (inspired), aspira (aspire, breathe, endeavor, endeavour, exhaust, inspire, sniff, suck), absorbi (absorb, captivate, engage, engross, fascinate, imbibe, inhale, soak, sponge, suck), pronunţa aspirat. (various references)

Russian		знак придыхания. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aspirirati, aspirata. (various references)

Spanish		aspirada. (various references)

Thai		เริ่มหรือจบ�"้วยเสียงลมหายใจ, สู�"ลมหายใจเข้า. (various references)

Turkish		soluklu okumak, soluklu ünsüz, soluklu. (various references)

Welsh		seinio ag anadl. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "aspirate": aspirated, aspirates. (additional references)
	Words containing "aspirate": unaspirated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Aspirate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aparato, aspartate, aspirat, asprate, Assirati, Azpitarte, Espiritu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aspirate" (pronounced a"spurā't)
3	-r ā' t	administrate, airfreight, arbitrate, birthrate, calibrate, carbohydrate, castrate, celebrate, concentrate, consecrate, demonstrate, denigrate, disintegrate, emigrate, frustrate, gyrate, hydrate, illustrate, immigrate, infiltrate, integrate, magistrate, migrate, narrate, nitrate, orchestrate, penetrate, perpetrate, reintegrate, serrate, substrate, vertebrate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: parasite, septaria.
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: apteria, aristae, asteria, atresia, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, spiraea, traipse.
	-2 letters: airest, arista, aspire, esprit, paries, paster, pastie, paters, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, priest, rapist, reatas, repast, riatas, ripest, sarape, satire, satrap, spirea, sprite, striae, stripe, tapers, tapirs, tarsia, terais, tiaras, trapes, tripes.
	-3 letters: airts, apart, apers, apres, apter, areas, arias.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: aspiratae, aspirated, aspirates, disparate, parakites, parasites, parietals, psalteria, satrapies, spermatia.
	+2 letters: ametropias, apartheids, appertains, asperating, parasitise, parasitize, rapacities, separating, separation, separatism, separatist, separative, spermatial.
	+3 letters: allopatries, altarpieces, antiphrases, appreciates, arpeggiates, ceratopsian, disparately, expatriates, greasepaint, ipsilateral, paediatrics, pageantries, pancreatins, parasitised, parasitises, parasitized, parasitizes, parasitoses, paresthesia, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, patriciates, peasantries, planarities, praetorians, reparations, repatriates, separations, separatisms, separatists, transalpine, unaspirated.
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