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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Articulate \Ar*tic"u*late\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Articulate \Ar*tic"u*late\, noun (Zo["o]l.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Articulate \Ar*tic"u*late\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Articulate \Ar*tic"u*late\, verb (used with an object)
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
articulate
adjective
1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: {inarticulate}]
2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: {articulated}] [ant: {unarticulated}]
verb
1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: {joint}]
2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: {give voice}, {formulate}, {word}, {phrase}]
3: 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?" [syn: {pronounce}, {enounce}, {sound out}, {enunciate}, {say}]
4: express or state clearly [syn: {enunciate}, {vocalize}, {vocalise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
210 Moby Thesaurus words for "articulate": Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Tullian, 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, 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, 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, understandable, unify, unite, utter, venting, verbalize, viva voce, vocalize, voice, voiced, wedge, weld, well-spoken, whisper, word, yoke, zipper
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