What is "aspirates"

Usage examples of "aspirates".

The waiters shared their pleasant mood, and served them affectionately, and were now and then invited to join in the gay talk which babbled on over dislocated aspirates, and filled the air with a sentiment of vagabond enjoyment, of the romantic freedom of violated convention, of something Gil Blas-like, almost picaresque.

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.

Trill sounds were sometimes replaced with aspirates in some regional speech patterns on Old Earth.

The needle has a suction tip that aspirates the egg from the follicle into a tube attached to the needle.