articulate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/
- (America) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA: /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/
articulate
- Clear; effective.
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- She’s a bright, articulate young woman.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
- The robot arm was articulate in two directions.
- jointed articulate animals
- Distinctly marked off.
- an articulate period in history
- (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
- (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
- 1728, James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:
- Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
- 1728, James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:
- (good at speaking) eloquent, well-spoken
- French: éloquent, éloquente
- German: redegewandt
- Italian: eloquente
- Portuguese: articulado
- Russian: вырази́тельный
- Spanish: elocuente
- French: articulé
- Portuguese: articulado, articulável
- Spanish: articulado
articulate (plural articulates)
- (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
- They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
- (British) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.leɪt/
- (America) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA: /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/
articulate (articulates, present participle articulating; past and past participle articulated)
- To make clear or effective.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- an articulated bus
- (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- Articulate that passage heavily.
- (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
- The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
- (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
- articulation
- pseudoarticulated
- pseudoarticulation
- French: articuler
- German: artikulieren
- Portuguese: articular
- French: articuler
- German: artikulieren
- Portuguese: articular
- Spanish: articular, vocalizar
- French: formuler
- German: ausdrücken
- German: betonen
- Portuguese: articular
- Spanish: articularse
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