Aspiration vs Thirst - What's the difference?
aspiration | thirst |
The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to or of)
The action of aspirating.
(phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(figuratively) A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; — usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
To be thirsty.
* Bible, Exodus xvii. 3
To desire.
* Bible, Psalms xlii. 2
As nouns the difference between aspiration and thirst
is that aspiration is aspiration (burst of air that follows the release of some consonants) while thirst is a sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.As a verb thirst is
to be thirsty.aspiration
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor
- Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game
Derived terms
* aspirational * aspirationalism * aspirationalistEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* aspirational * preaspirationExternal links
* * ----thirst
English
Noun
(en noun)- "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
Synonyms
* (figuratively) craving, longingSee also
* hungerVerb
(en verb)- The people thirsted there for water.
- My soul thirsteth for the living God.
- I thirst for knowledge and education will sate me.