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What does "articulate" mean?

Articulate: Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.
  2. 3.An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
  3. 4.To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.
  4. 5.To treat or make terms. [Obs.] Shak.
  5. 6.To join or be connected by articulation.
  6. 7.To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
  7. 8.To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]
  8. 9.To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. "To articulate a word." Ray.
  9. 10.To express distinctly; to give utterance to. Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

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