- a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
- a goal or objective that is strongly desired: The presidency has been his aspiration since boyhood.
- the act of aspirating or breathing in.
- Phonetics.
- articulation accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how, or of when (hwen), or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key.
- the use of such a speech sound, or aspirate, in pronunciation.
- Medicine/Medical.
- the act of removing a fluid, as pus or serum, from a cavity of the body, by a hollow needle or trocar connected with a suction syringe.
- the act of inhaling fluid or a foreign body into the bronchi and lungs, often after vomiting.
- strong desire to achieve something, such as success
- the aim of such desire
- the act of breathing
- a breath
- phonetics
- the pronunciation of a stop with an audible and forceful release of breath
- the friction of the released breath
- an aspirated consonant
- removal of air or fluid from a body cavity by suction
- med
- the sucking of fluid or foreign matter into the air passages of the body
- the removal of air or fluid from the body by suction
