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单词 aspiration
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aspirationn.

/aspɪˈreɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1500s adsp-.
Etymology: < Latin aspīrātiōn-em, noun of action < aspīrāre : see aspire v. and -ation suffix.Sometimes written asperation : see aspirate adj.1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 558 The letter of Asperation being altered out of his place.
I. From aspire n.
1. The action of breathing into; inspiration.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun]
lightOE
lightingOE
inspiration1303
illuminationsc1340
inyettingc1340
revelationc1384
oraclec1425
revealingc1429
informationc1450
infusionc1450
illustrationc1480
gospel1481
aspirationc1534
illuminating1561
afflation1576
entheos1594
enthusiasm1595
flame-light1611
illapse1614
inspirement1616
spiration1629
respirationa1631
irradiation1631
income1647
afflatus1649
theopneustian1660
entheasm1752
prana1785
inflation1835
theopneusty1847
inflatusa1861
theopneustia1894
c1534 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 169 Which thinge [he]..sayde not withoute the aspiration and assent of the Hollie Spirit.
a1535 T. More Wks. (R.) 357 (R.) Without the adspiracion and helpe of whose especiall grace no laboure of man can profite.
2. The action of breathing or drawing one's breath; a breath, sigh. technical. The drawing in of air in, or as in, breathing.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun]
orthOE
breatha1300
spiritc1350
aspirement1393
breathinga1398
suspiry1398
spirtc1415
respiration?a1425
respiring?a1425
windc1450
soufflement1483
anding1487
spiring1533
spiration1568
suspiration1604
aspiration1608
expiration1638
eupnœa1706
flation1708
rebreathing1877
ventilation1891
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 215 Corrupt inflamation, taking away freedome or easines of aspiration.
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 7 One..of those Syphons containes so much Air that it cannot be drawn forth by aspiration.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i. 27 There is..not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. vi. 91 She sighed, with an aspiration so low that it was scarcely audible to herself.
1869 Eng. Mech. 31 Dec. 379/2 Valves of aspiration..send the air into the body of the apparatus.
3. That which is breathed out, an exhalation.
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > a vapour
steamc1000
vapour1382
exhalation1393
fumosity1477
suffumigation1567
fluxion1603
aspiration1635
halitus1661
suffumige1666
emanation1832
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 202 An hot and drie aspiration exhaled out of the earth.
4. The action of aspiring; steadfast desire or longing for something above one.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > aspiration, ambition > [noun]
ambition1340
folebayrie1340
high flyinga1586
aspiration1609
ambitude1661
aspiringness1859
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun]
folebayrie1340
ambition?a1439
ambitiousnessa1500
affectation1549
aspire1562
aspiring1584
philotimy1593
ambitiositya1600
aspirement1607
aspiration1609
votea1626
anhelation1628
breathinga1635
drivenness1902
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. vi. 17 That spirit of his In aspiration lifts him from the earth. View more context for this quotation
a1748 I. Watts Improvem. Mind in Wks. (1813) VIII. xv. 103 A soul inspired with the warmest aspirations after celestial beatitude.
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. vii. 51 He..had been assured that he need regard no woman as too high for his aspirations.
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iii. 120 Aspiration is a pure upward desire for excellence.
II. From aspirate adj. and n.
5. The action of aspirating: see aspirate v.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > aspirate > aspiration
aspirationa1398
incrassation1668
preaspiration1938
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxxxv. 1236 Þis name pigargus haþ non aspiracioun..and so it schal nout be writen wiþ But some men writen phigargus and doon amys.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. vi. 13 b H is no letter but a signe of aspiracion.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 130 The addition of an h, or aspiration of the letter π. View more context for this quotation
1845 J. O'Donovan Gram. Irish Lang. 39 Aspiration..of the Celtic..may be defined as the changing of the radical sounds of the consonants from being stops of the breath to a sibilance, or from a stronger to a weaker sibilance.
6. An aspirated sound or letter; the letter H n. or its equivalent; the breathings (‘) and (’) in Greek; = aspirate adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > aspirate > sound of `h'
aspiration1569
spirit1612
aspirate1725
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 35 Pritannia in Greke, with a circumflexed aspiracion, doth signifie Metalles.
1605 J. Dove Confut. Atheisme 61 The letter ה He, which is but an aspiration.
1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. xiv. 213 What is no Substantiall Letter, but a bare Aspiration.
1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 292 Of less standing in the University, than Greek accents and aspirations.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 282 The Greek vowels admit of two aspirations, viz. spiritus asper [‘] and spiritus lenis [’].
7. The action or process of drawing in, out, or through by suction; esp. the drawing out (of fluids, gases, etc.) by means of an aspirator.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [noun]
imbibition1601
absorption1675
aspiration1842
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > extracting gas or fluid
draining1565
exhaustion1661
aspiration1842
adspiration1851
bleeding1889
bleed1949
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 203/2 The fluid was absorbed throughout all the pores of the [felled] tree, by a process which is termed ‘aspiration’.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 344/2 Apparatus, in which the principle of aspiration, or drawing currents of air through the grain, is now extensively employed.
1881 Trans. Obstetr. Soc. 22 57 Aspiration was frequently resorted to, with the view of arresting the growth of the fœtus.
1950 Engineering CLXIX. 31/1Aspiration’, or separation by means of ascending air currents, is much used in [flour] milling.
attributive.1902 C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Lightning Conductor 18 The ‘aspiration pipe’..had worked loose.
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