articulate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1531, the verb in 1551; borrowed from Latin articulātus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”), perfect passive participle of articulō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Inflected forms:
form: articulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: articulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: articulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: articulated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more articulate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most articulate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: articulates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make clear or effective.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To speak clearly; to enunciate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
gloss: To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
It’s not just that Trump’s voters are articulating the same ideas. They’re framing issues in the same way, pointing to the same boogeymen and even using the same words.
gloss: To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: an articulated bus
gloss: To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Articulate that passage heavily.
gloss: To form a joint or connect by joints.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
gloss: To treat or make terms.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Send us to Rome / The best, with whom we may articulate / For their own good and ours.
gloss: Clear; effective.
pos: adj
gloss: Speaking in a clear and effective manner; having both good articulation and good elocution.
pos: adj
examples: She’s a bright, articulate young woman.
gloss: Consisting of segments united by joints.
pos: adj
examples: jointed articulate animals
The robot arm was articulate in two directions.
gloss: Distinctly marked off.
pos: adj
examples: an articulate period in history
gloss: Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: articulate sounds
gloss: Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
gloss: Articulated (all senses).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
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,
gloss: An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
pos: noun
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.
Related words: articulation
pseudoarticulated
pseudoarticulation
Derived words: articulable
articulatability
articulatable
articulative
articulator
articulatory
coarticulate
dearticulate
disarticulate
malarticulate
misarticulate
overarticulate
rearticulate
underarticulate
exarticulate
articulately
articulateness
biarticulate
hyperarticulate
inarticulate
interarticulate
multarticulate
multiarticulate
octarticulate
pluriarticulate
prearticulate
quadriarticulate
semiarticulate
sexarticulate
subarticulate
triarticulate
unarticulate
uniarticulate
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