Aspirate vs Undefined - What's the difference?
aspirate | undefined |
(linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.
(linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
* 1972 , Leonard R. Palmer, Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics , page 50
A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
* 2003 , Miep H. Helfrich et al.'' (eds.), ''Bone Research Protocols , page 430
To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
(linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant.
* 1887 , James Frederick Hodgetts, Greater England , page 33
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As adjectives the difference between aspirate and undefined
is that aspirate is aspirated while undefined is lacking a definition or value.As a noun aspirate
is (linguistics) the puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.As a verb aspirate
is to remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.aspirate
English
Noun
(en noun)- We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
- (Bentley)
Verb
(aspirat)- Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (inhale) breathe in, inhale, inspireAnagrams
* ----undefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .