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Aspirant: Definition and part of speech

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Aspirant

  1. n. One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.
  2. a. Aspiring.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aspirate: Definition and part of speech

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Aspirate

  1. a. Alt. of Aspirated
  2. v. t. To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
  3. n. A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
  4. n. A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
  5. n. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aspiration: Definition and part of speech

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Aspiration

  1. n. The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire.
  2. n. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
  3. n. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aspirator: Definition and part of speech

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Aspirator

  1. n. An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.
  2. n. An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aspire: Definition and part of speech

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Aspire

  1. n. Aspiration.
  2. v. t. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; — followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality.
  3. v. t. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
  4. v. t. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.