Articulate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ar=tic=u=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

Articulate, a. [L. articulatus. See Articulata.].

•  Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.  [1913 Webster]
•  Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.  [1913 Webster]

  "Total changes of party and articulate opinion."  [1913 Webster]

Articulate, n. 

 An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.  [1913 Webster]

Articulate, v. i. 

•  To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.  [1913 Webster]
•  To treat or make terms.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To join or be connected by articulation.  [1913 Webster]

Articulate, v. t. 

•  To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.  [1913 Webster]
•  To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify.  [1913 Webster]
•  To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.  Ray.  [1913 Webster]
•  To express distinctly; to give utterance to.  [1913 Webster]

  "Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church."  [1913 Webster]

  "To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Articulate, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 able to speak fluently and coherently.
2 (of sound or speech) having clearly distinguishable parts.
3 having joints.
--v.
1 tr. a pronounce (words, syllables, etc.) clearly and distinctly. b express (an idea etc.) coherently.
2 intr. speak distinctly (was quite unable to articulate).
3 tr. (usu. in passive) connect by joints.
4 tr. mark with apparent joints.
5 intr. (often foll. by with) form a joint.

Idiom

articulated lorry Brit. a lorry consisting of two or more sections connected by a flexible joint.

Derivative

articulacy n. articulately adv. articulateness n. articulator n.

Etymology

L articulatus (as ARTICLE, -ATE(2))

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Articulate

Voice

VB utter, breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry, ejaculate, rap out, vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear.

N voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology, vocal, phonetic, oral, ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous, euphonious, how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman, the organ of the soul, thy voice is a celestial melody.