articulate
Meanings
Adjective
- Clear; effective.
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
- Distinctly marked off.
- Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
- Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
Noun
- An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
Verb
- To make clear or effective.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- To treat or make terms.
Related
Similar words
Origin
- Borrowed from Latin articulātus ("distinct, articulated, jointed").
- From the adjective.
Modern English dictionary
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