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Articulation

noun

The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech.

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made. Synonyms: join, joint, junction, juncture.

Expressing in coherent verbal form. Synonym: voice. "I gave voice to my feelings"

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion). Synonyms: articulatio, joint.

The act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible.

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"Articulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... making the land some time or other. In the evening two more of the crew died, also, before sunset, one Thomas Philpot, an old experienced seaman, and very strong; he departed rather convulsed; having latterly lost the power of articulation, his meaning could not be comprehended. He was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and had no family. The survivors found it a difficult task to heave his body overboard, as he was a ...

— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous

... formed a portion of his last week's leader) with vehement articulation, the editor paused to take breath, and looked majestically ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... the individual out of the mass of the nation, this articulation of his immediate relation to God apart from Law, Temple and Race, achieved as it was by Jeremiah only through intense mental and physical agonies, opened to him the problem of the sufferings of the righteous. In ...

— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith

... the strange articulation. "Ah, yes, that is it. Now I remember. And it has a little sister, the cigarette. I think I shall take a cigarette, if—if—if you will show me how ...

— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

... half thought that the speaker wished that John would fail—that he grudged him a triumph. None the less, the first verse, sung feebly, with wrong phrasing and imperfect articulation, revealed the quality of the boy's voice; and this quality Desmond recognized, as he would have recognized a fine painting or a bit of perfect porcelain. All his short life his father had trained him to look for and acclaim quality, ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

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