articulate

To make clear or effective.transitive

To speak clearly; to enunciate.ambitransitive

• I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.

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

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

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

• an articulated bus

To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.transitive

• Articulate that passage heavily.

To form a joint or connect by joints.intransitive

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

To treat or make terms.obsolete

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

Clear; effective.

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

• She’s a bright, articulate young woman.

Consisting of segments united by joints.

• jointed articulate animals
• The robot arm was articulate in two directions.

Distinctly marked off.

• an articulate period in history

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.obsolete

• articulate sounds

Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.obsolete

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

Articulated (all senses).obsolete

• 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

An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

• 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.