| 单词 | articulate |
| 释义 | articulate (once / 638 pages) 1vadj 2adjv To articulate is to say something. And, if you say it well, someone might praise you by saying you are articulate. Confused yet? It's all in the pronunciation. Reach for articulate when you need an adjective meaning "well-spoken" (pronounced ar-TIC-yuh-lit) or a verb (ar-TIC-yuh-late) meaning "to speak or express yourself clearly." The key to understanding articulate's many uses is to think of the related noun article: an articulate person clearly pronounces each article of his or her speech (that is, each word and syllable), and an articulated joint is divided up into distinct articles, or parts. WORD FAMILYarticulate: articulated, articulately, articulateness, articulates, articulating, articulation, articulative, articulator, articulatory, disarticulate, inarticulate, unarticulate+/articulated: unarticulated/articulation: articulations/articulator: articulators/disarticulate: disarticulated, disarticulating/inarticulate: inarticulately USAGE EXAMPLES“He’s more articulate than I am. All of our kids are teaching me so much right now,” Ms. Bening said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Indeed, a mainstream strategy in cognitive behavioral therapy involves purposefully articulating thoughts to oneself in order to diminish pernicious habits of mind. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The prosecutors are also likely to re-emphasize the considerable evidence of Mr. Roof’s premeditation and clearly articulated racial intent. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v express or state clearly Syn|Hyper enunciate, vocalise, vocalize say, state, tell express in words 2v speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way Syn|Hypo enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out twang pronounce with a nasal twang devoiceutter with tense vocal chords raisepronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth liltarticulate in a very careful and rhythmic way palatalise, palatalizepronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate nasalise, nasalizepronounce with a lowered velum nasalise, nasalizespeak nasally or through the nose mispronounce, misspeakpronounce a word incorrectly aspiratepronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds sound, vocalise, vocalize, voiceutter with vibrating vocal chords retroflexarticulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate subvocalise, subvocalizearticulate without making audible sounds syllabise, syllabizeutter with distinct articulation of each syllable drawllengthen and slow down or draw out labialise, labialize, roundpronounce with rounded lips lispspeak with a lisp accent, accentuate, stressput stress on; utter with an accent vocalise, vocalize, vowelise, vowelizepronounce as a vowel clickproduce a click trillpronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' sibilatepronounce with an initial sibilant flappronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds explodecause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ rollpronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ chirkmake a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird quaver, wavergive off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency 3v put into words or an expression Syn|Hypo|Hyper formulate, give voice, phrase, word ask direct or put; seek an answer to lexicalise, lexicalizemake or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language dogmatise, dogmatizestate as a dogma formularise, formularizeexpress as a formula cast, couch, frame, put, redactformulate in a particular style or language evince, express, show give expression to 4adj expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language 2articulate speech an articulate orator articulate beings Syn|Ant eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively speech-endowedcapable of speech well-spokenspeaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly communicative, communicatoryable or tending to communicate spokenuttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination inarticulate, unarticulate without or deprived of the use of speech or words aphasicunable to speak because of a brain lesion aphonic, voicelessbeing without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech dumb, mute, silentunable to speak because of hereditary deafness dumblacking the power of human speech incoherent, tongue-tiedunable to express yourself clearly or fluently mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordlessexpressed without speech dumb, speechlesstemporarily incapable of speaking unarticulateduttered without the use of normal words or syllables incommunicative, uncommunicativenot inclined to talk or give information or express opinions 1adj consisting of segments held together by joints Syn|Ant articulated jointed having joints or jointed segments; unarticulated not consisting of segments that are held together by joints unjointedwithout joints or jointed segments 2v provide with a joint Syn|Hyper joint furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 3v unite by forming a joint or joints the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones Hyper connect, join, link, link up, unite be or become joined or united or linked |
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