Aspiration \As`pi*ra"tion\, n. [L. aspiratio, fr. aspirare: cf.
F. aspiration.]
1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with
a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
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If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of
breathing. --Wilkins.
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2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.
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3. The act of aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish;
high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." --Johnson.
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Vague aspiration after military renown. --Prescott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aspiration
n 1: a will to succeed
2: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business" [syn: ambition, dream]
3: a manner of articulation involving an audible release of
breath
4: the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases)
as in breathing [syn: inhalation, inspiration, breathing
in]
WordNet (r) 2.0
251 Moby Thesaurus words for "aspiration":
Aqua-Lung, aim, allophone, alveolar, ambition, ambitiousness,
animus, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation,
artificial respiration, assimilation, assumption, assurance,
assured faith, asthmatic wheeze, basis, bated breath, bilabial,
bleeding, bloodletting, breath, breath of air, breathing,
breathy voice, broaching, broken wind, cacuminal, calling, cause,
cerebral, check, cheerful expectation, confidence, consideration,
consonant, continuant, conviction, cough, counsel, craving,
cupping, dental, dependence, desideration, desideratum, design,
desire, determination, diphthong, direction, dissimilation,
doomed hope, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, dream, effect,
emptying, epenthetic vowel, exhalation, expectation, expiration,
explosive, exsufflation, fair prospect, faith, fervent hope,
fixed purpose, function, gasp, glide, glottal, glottalization,
goal, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, ground,
guiding light, guiding star, gulp, guttural, hack, hankering,
hiccup, high goal, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis,
hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, idea, ideal,
idealism, ideals, inhalation, inhalator, inhalement, inspiration,
insufflation, intendment, intent, intention, iron lung, labial,
labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral,
lingual, liquid, little voice, lodestar, longing, low voice, lust,
mainspring, manner of articulation, matter, meaning, milking, mind,
modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, motive,
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, mumble, mumbling, murmur,
murmuration, murmuring, mute, mutter, muttering, nasal, nisus,
objective, occlusive, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, palatal, pant,
parasitic vowel, passion, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
phlebotomy, phone, phoneme, pipetting, plan, plosive, plot, point,
prayerful hope, presumption, pretension, principle, project,
promise, proposal, prospect, prospects, prospectus,
prothetic vowel, puff, pumping, purpose, reaching high, reason,
reliance, resolution, resolve, respiration, retroflex, sake,
sanguine expectation, scheme, score, scuba, security,
segmental phoneme, semivowel, sigh, siphoning, sneeze, sniff,
sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, soft voice, sonant,
sonority, source, speech sound, spring, stage whisper,
sternutation, stertor, still small voice, stop, striving, study,
suck, sucking, suction, surd, suspiration, susurration, susurrus,
syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tapping,
transition sound, triphthong, trust, ulterior motive, underbreath,
undertone, upward looking, urge, velar, venesection, view, vocable,
vocalic, vocation, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound,
voicing, vowel, well-grounded hope, wheeze, whisper, whispering,
will, wind, wish, yearning
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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