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/ɑrtˈɪkjəlˌeɪt/ /ɑrtˈɪkjələt/ Listen

Articulate

verb

(past & past part. articulated; pres. part. articulating)

1.

Provide with a joint. Synonym: joint.

2.

Put into words or an expression. Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word.

3.

Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way. Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out. "I cannot say 'zip wire'" , "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

4.

Unite by forming a joint or joints.

5.

Express or state clearly. Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize.

adjective

1.

Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language. "An articulate orator" , "Articulate beings"

2.

Consisting of segments held together by joints. Synonym: articulated.

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"Articulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... then his hand went out to the sofa as if in search of support, and with an articulate though audible "Damn!" he sank ...

— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... Therefore, to train the child's attention to follow sounds and noises which are produced in the environment, to recognize them and to discriminate between them, is to prepare his attention to follow more accurately the sounds of articulate language. The teacher must be careful to pronounce clearly and completely the sounds of the word when she speaks to a child, even though she may be speaking in a low voice, almost as if telling him a secret. The children's songs are also ...

— Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook • Maria Montessori

... with a gesture, partly of extreme terror, and partly as if invoking a curse, attempted to speak, but could not articulate one word. "No, no!" she said, as she fell into Montalais's arms, murmuring: "Do not touch me, do ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

... being money-vote for Navy. Major by this time hauled down in his seat. Up again, like Jack out of box. Chairman also on his feet, putting next vote; hubbub tremendous; Major's lips observed in motion; not an articulate syllable ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893 • Various

... which she never doubted was near at hand. A long, long time it seemed since she had sold herself to degradation: with this one hope. You see that she had formulated her philosophy of life since then; a child of the nether world whom fate had endowed with intellect, she gave articulate utterance to what is seething in the brains of thousands who fight and perish in the obscure depths. The bitter bargain was issuing to her profit at last; she would yet attain that end which had shone through all her misery—to be known as ...

— The Nether World • George Gissing

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