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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

... same thing occurs in language. Our timbre of voice, our articulation, and our vocabulary, like our physiognomy, have about them something individual, and error often arises from overlooking this, and hastily reading common interpretations into exceptional cases. The misunderstandings that arise even among the most open and confiding friends ...

— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully

... you?' he asked sternly, and with not altogether an English articulation. 'What do ...

— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy

... by articulation of sounds, and paramountly by the memory in the ear; nature by the impression of bounds and surfaces on the eye, and through the eye it gives significance and appropriation, and thus the conditions of memory, or the capability of being ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... waning light. Among them towered the burly choirmaster, baton in hand. The parson's daughter was at the organ. Well accustomed to produce his voice to good purpose, the choirmaster's words were clearly to be heard throughout the building, and it was on the subject of articulation and emphasis, and the like, that he was speaking; now and then throwing in an extra aspirate in the energy of that enthusiasm without which teaching is not ...

— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing

... by a resolution to tell a tale for the first and last time, the old woman, steadying as much as she might her shaking head, and leaning forward to look at the priest with bleared yet flashing eyes, was pouring out words whose articulation was often indistinct. Her hand upon her staff was constantly moving, as if she were about to rise and walk; her body seemed about to spring forward with the impulse of her thoughts, the very folds of the scarlet ...

— A Dozen Ways Of Love • Lily Dougall

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