Aspirated consonant. In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.ne should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with bin. In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in bin. The diacritic for aspiration in the International Phonetic Alphabet is a superscript h, â¨â©.
portrait. 1. a drawing, painting, photograph etc of a person.
(pÃ´râ²trÄ­t, -trÄtâ²) n. 1. A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example. 2. A verbal representation or description, especially of a person. 3. A dramatic representation of a character: the actor's portrait of the famous general. 4. The orientation of a page such that the longer side runs from top to bottom.