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Aspirate vs Encourage - What's the difference?

aspirate | encourage |

As verbs the difference between aspirate and encourage

is that aspirate is to remove a liquid or gas by means of suction while encourage is .

As a noun aspirate

is (linguistics) the puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.

As an adjective aspirate

is aspirated.

aspirate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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
  • We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
  • A mark of aspiration (#) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
  • (Bentley)

    Verb

    (aspirat)
  • To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
  • * 2003 , Miep H. Helfrich et al.'' (eds.), ''Bone Research Protocols , page 430
  • Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
  • 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
  • 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, inspire

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • aspirated
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    encourage

    English

    Verb

    (encourag)
  • To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
  • I encouraged him during his race.
  • To spur on, strongly recommend.
  • We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
  • To foster, give help or patronage
  • ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * discourage

    Derived terms

    * encouragement * encouraging * encouragingly