aspiration
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7.2
- noun
- /ˌæspəˈreɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
aspiración
- The first saw the growth of behavioral orthodoxy in political science; it was long on scientific aspiration and thankfully short on methodological rigor.
Examples
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Will these challenges be addressed nimbly and flexibly, to borrow terms of aspiration used by program proponents?
Blog text (6) -
Yet Monocle was also global in aspiration.
Blog text (10) -
The morality of aspiration is that conception of moral principles to which humans ought to aspire.
Academic text (2008) -
"Heart," "horn," and "held" all begin with an aspiration (the h sound); "born," "horn," and "torn" all end with the orn sound.
Blog text (24) -
Aspiration indicates the entry of a portion of a bolus below the level of the vocal folds (Figure 3, B).
Academic text (2004) -
Tolerance of linguistic aspirations builds on that particularism and became part of the postmodernist agenda of the late twentieth century.
Academic text (2003) -
Diagnostic investigation includes physical examination, CT, (n18, n19), and fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
Academic text (2006) -
A philosophizing worm, a psychologizing worm, a pontificator, a prognosticator, a worm of wit and aspiration, a worm of cortical distinction, a worm of brain.
Fiction book (2001) -
The word "hat" starts with an aspiration that creates a noticeable breathy sound.
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In phonetics, aspiration refers to the breathy sound that follows the consonant 22p22 in 22pat22.
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.8
A lung infection caused when food, drink, or vomit enter the lungs
- Specialized
A medical procedure that ends an early pregnancy by sucking the unborn baby and placenta from the womb
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aspiration in phonetics keeps the same breath idea from Latin aspirare 'to breathe'. It names the small burst of breath that follows some consonant sounds, so the word simply means a kind of 'breathing' in speech.