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.
A portrait: 1  Captures the personality or essence of a subject. 2  Not just a picture with a person in it. 3  A clinical portrait might not attempt to reveal the soul of a person, but it still needs to capture something of that person's uniqueness â or else it's not a portrait. 4  Is staged.