articulate

IPA: ɑrtˈɪkjʌɫeɪt

noun

  • (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

verb

  • (transitive) To make clear or effective.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.
  • (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
  • (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
  • (music, transitive) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
  • (anatomy, intransitive) to form a joint or connect by joints
  • (obsolete) To treat or make terms.

adjective

  • Clear; effective.
  • Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
  • Consisting of segments united by joints.
  • Distinctly marked off.
  • (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
  • (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
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Examples of "articulate" in Sentences

  • While there, I endeavored to engage in articulate speech.
  • It is racist, because no one uses the word articulate to describe white speakers with exceptional oratorical skills.
  • For example, remember how much trouble Joe Biden got into for using the word articulate, clean and articulate, to describe Barack Obama?
  • What we have been talking about is how the use of the word articulate is code for a black person who enunciates his words when he speaks.
  • Best I can articulate is I think the issue has started and stalled and we need to check the spark plugs, because we * need* it on the road.
  • What Epstein fails to articulate is that while Israeli troops have formally pulled out from the Gaza Strip, Israel still controls all supplies that enter and leave the territory.
  • I think what the author was trying to articulate is that an encrypted file system would only prove effective if you were in an enterprise environment with mission critical data on the hook.
  • I, for one, can never make any sense out of what she says, and if articulate is telling outright lies, saying "you betcha", and running sentences together, you need to bone up on the English language.
  • Let's face it; the man, while personable and articulate is laboring under the arrogant and false assumption that because so many people like him personally, his inexperience and general clueless won't matter.

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