articulate

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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.

adjective, noun

• (UK) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/
• (US) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA^(key): /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt

verb

• (UK) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.leɪt/
• (US) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA^(key): /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt

articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)

1. (transitive) To make clear or effective.
2. (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.

   I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.

3. (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.

   I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.

4. (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.

   an articulated bus

5. (music, transitive) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.

   Articulate that passage heavily.

6. (anatomy, intransitive) to form a joint or connect by joints

   The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.

7. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 1, scene 9, lines 75–77:

     Send us to Rome / The best, with whom we may articulate / For their own good and ours.

articulate (comparative more articulate, superlative most articulate)

1. Clear; effective.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. Speaking in a clear and effective manner; having both good articulation and good elocution.

   Synonyms: eloquent, well-spoken

   She’s a bright, articulate young woman.

3. Consisting of segments united by joints.

   jointed articulate animals

   The robot arm was articulate in two directions.

4. Distinctly marked off.

   an articulate period in history

5. (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:

     articulate sounds

6. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
   • 1728, James Knapton, John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:

     Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.

7. (obsolete, as a participle) Articulated (all senses).
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 69, column 2:

     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,

articulate (plural articulates)

1. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
   • 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History):

     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.

• inarticulate

• “articulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “articulate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

articulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of articulō

• “articulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

articulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of articular combined with te