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Articulate

Articulate Meaning & Definition
Articulate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Articulate?

[adj] expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
[adj] consisting of segments held together by joints
[v] express or state clearly
[v] speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
[v] put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
[v] provide with a joint, as of two pieces of wood

Synonyms | Synonyms for Articulate: articulated | eloquent | enounce | enunciate | facile | fluent | formulate | joint | jointed | phrase | pronounce | pronounced | silver | silver-tongued | smooth-spoken | sound out | speaking(a) | speech-endowed | vocalise | vocalize | well-spoken | word

Related Terms | Find terms related to Articulate: accouple | accumulate | adjust | agglutinate | amass | apprehensible | assemble | associate | audible | band | batten | batten down | bolt | bond | bracket | breathe | bridge | bridge over | buckle | butt | button | cement | chain | chime | chorus | Ciceronian | clap together | clasp | clear | cleat | clip | cognizable | collect | combine | come out with | communicate | comprehensible | comprise | concatenate | conglobulate | conjoin | conjugate | connect | contrastive | convey | coordinate | copulate | couple | cover | definite | deliver | Demosthenian | Demosthenic | disclose | distinct | distinctive | dovetail | easily understood | easy to understand | eloquent | embrace | emit | encompass | enunciate | exoteric | express | facund | fathomable | felicitous | fling off | fluent | formulate | free-speaking | free-spoken | garrulous | gather | give | give expression | give out with | give tongue | give utterance | give voice | glib | glue | harmonize | hasp | hearable | hi-fi | high-fidelity | hinge | hitch | hook | impart | include | intelligible | jam | join | joint | jointed | knot | knowable | latch | lay together | league | let out | link | lip | lock | loud-speaking | loud-spoken | lump together | marry | marshal | mass | meaningful | merge | methodize | miter | mobilize | mortise | nail | oral | order | organize | out with | outspoken | pair | peg | penetrable | phonate | phrase | piece together | pin | plain | plain-speaking | plain-spoken | plumbable | pour forth | prehensible | present | prolix | pronounce | put forth | put in words | put together | rabbet | raise | readable | regulate | relate | rivet | roll into one | say | scarf | screw | scrutable | set forth | sew | significant | silver | silver-tongued | skewer | slick | smooth | smooth-spoken | smooth-tongued | snap | soft-speaking | soft-spoken | solder | sonant | sound | span | speaking | spellbinding | splice | spoken | staple | stick | stick together | stitch | systematize | tack | take in | talkative | talking | tape | tell | throw off | tie | toggle | true-speaking | Tullian | understandable | unify | unite | utter | venting | verbalize | viva voce | vocalize | voice | voiced | wedge | weld | well-spoken | whisper | word | yoke | zipper

See Also | accent | accentuate | ask | aspirate | cast | click | communicative | communicatory | couch | devoice | dogmatise | dogmatize | drawl | evince | explode | express | flap | formularise | formularize | frame | furnish | labialise | labialize | lexicalise | lexicalize | lilt | lisp | mispronounce | mouth | nasalise | nasalize | palatalise | palatalize | provide | put | raise | redact | render | retroflex | roll | round | say | show | sibilate | sound | speak | spoken | state | stress | subvocalise | subvocalize | supply | syllabise | syllabize | talk | tell | trill | twang | utter | verbalise | verbalize | voice | vowelise | vowelize

Articulate In Webster's Dictionary

\Ar*tic"u*late\, a. [L. articulatus. See {Articulata}.] 1. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] --Bacon. 2. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants. 3. Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. --Carlyle.
\Ar*tic"u*late\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
\Ar*tic"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Articulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Articulating}]. 1. To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly. 2. To treat or make terms. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To join or be connected by articulation.
\Ar*tic"u*late\, v. t. 1. To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints. 2. To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.] 3. To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. ``To articulate a word.'' --Ray. 4. To express distinctly; to give utterance to. Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. --Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. --Carlyle.

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