1. (a.) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

2. (a.) Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

3. (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.

4. (n.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

5. (v. i.) To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

6. (v. i.) To treat or make terms.

7. (v. i.) To join or be connected by articulation.

8. (v. t.) To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.

9. (v. t.) To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify.

10. (v. t.) To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.

11. (v. t.) To express distinctly; to give utterance to.

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