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.
Portrait of a girl in costume in the natural environment of a gothic festival. Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject.Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included.he relatively low cost of the daguerreotype in the middle of the 19th century and the reduced sitting time for the subject, though still much longer than now, led to a general rise in the popularity of portrait photography over painted portraiture.