articulate
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Is articulate a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of articulate?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make clear or effective.transitive
2. (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.Examples: "I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly."ambitransitive
3. (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.Examples: "I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why."transitive
4. (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.Examples: "an articulated bus"transitive
5. (music, transitive) To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.Examples: "Articulate that passage heavily."transitive
6. (anatomy, intransitive) To form a joint or connect by joints.Examples: "The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint."intransitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.Examples: "articulate sounds"obsolete
2. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.Examples: "Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c."obsolete
3. (obsolete, as a participle) Articulated (all senses).Examples: "Theſe things indeede you haue articulate(d), Proclaim'd at Market Croſſes, read in Churches, To face the Garment of Rebellion VVith ſome fine colour, that may pleaſe the eye Of fickle Changelings, and poore Diſcontents, Which gape, and rub the Elbovv at the nevves Of hurly burly Innouation : And neuer yet did Inſurrection vvant Such vvater-colours, to impaint his cauſe : Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time Of pell-mell hauocke, and confuſion,"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.Examples: "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."
Definition source: Wiktionary