English Dictionary

aspirate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction. / (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.

日本語の意味

吸引して液体または気体を除去する / 吸引して空気以外の物質を肺に取り込む

The surgeon asked the nurse to aspirate the excess fluid from the wound before closing it.

外科医は縫合する前に、看護師に創部の余分な液体を吸引するよう頼んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.

Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.

意味（2）

(transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.

意味（4）

1887, James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England, page 33

There is no doubt that the uncertainty about the letter H, which much defaces English in some classes of the community, is due entirely to Norman influence, for Frenchmen could not aspirate. Three words—hour, honor, heir, with compounds of them such as hourly, honourable, heirship, and the like, are quite enough to puzzle people who find H sometimes sounded, sometimes not.

aspirates （ present singular third-person ）

aspirating （ participle present ）

aspirated （ participle past ）

aspirated （ past ）