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aspirated
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Word definitions for aspirated in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aspirate \As"pi*rate\ ([a^]s"p[i^]*r[asl]t), Aspirated \As"pi*ra"ted\ (-r[=a]"t[e^]d), a. [L. aspiratus, p. p.] Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. --Holder.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context phonetics English) Pronounced with an audible breath. v (en-past of: aspirate)
Usage examples of aspirated.
Matty's Da'd died choking on aspirated blood, a veritable fountain of the darkest possible blood, Matty coated a spray-paint-russet as he held the man's yellow wrists and Mum lumbered off down the ward in search of a crash-cart team.
Particles aspirated so terribly fine, like almost atomized, so that they hung in the air like the air itself over the cribbed bed as the man expired, cat-yellow eyes wide open and face screwed into the very most godawful rictusized grin of pain, his last thoughts (if any) unknowable.
Gately's eyes were rolling around in his head and he was making pathetic little scared aspirated sounds as he pictured himself with a hook and parrot and patch making piratical 'Arr Matey' sounds from the AA podium.
On top of the bullet wound, he aspirated a lot of blood and they had to insert a chest tube.
From the autopsy she already knew the patient’s lungs and bronchial tubes had been clear, meaning he had not aspirated anything.
The question of aspiration There is one uncertainty regarding the precise pronunciation the unvoiced stops c (= k), t, p: In English as well as some other languages, these sounds, when occurring before a vowel at the beginning of a word, are normally aspirated.
Should Quenya t, p, c be aspirated as in English, or should they be pronounced as in French or Finnish?
It may be observed that Quenya t, p, c descend from Primitive Elvish consonants that were certainly not aspirated, for in the primitive language they contrasted with distinct aspirated sounds: primitive th, ph, kh, which later became s, f, h in Quenya.
Since the primitive aspirated sounds had been changed, adding aspiration to t, p, c would cause no confusion.
It should be noted, though, that in the writing system devised by Fëanor, there were originally distinct letters for aspirated sounds: "The original Fëanorian system also possessed a grade with extended stems, both above and below the line [of writing].
The voiced counterparts of t, p and c/k, namely d, b and (hard) g respectively, are not aspirated in English.
For this reason, people who are used to hearing the unvoiced sounds pronounced as aspirated variants may (wrongly) perceive unaspirated unvoiced plosives as their voiced counterparts.
We may also consider the primitive aspirated consonants kh, th, ph, pronounced more or less as in as in backhand, outhouse, scrap-heap (to borrow my own examples from Lesson One).
However, following at least some consonants, the primitive aspirates kh, ph, th lost their aspiration (the h element) and became unaspirated k, p, t instead.
Ur-Jah, our eldest sage, aspirated in Anglic, the native tongue of our youngest sept.