Word Finder - articulated

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To make clear or effective.

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To speak clearly; to enunciate.

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I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.

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

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

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

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an articulated bus

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

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Articulate that passage heavily.

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To form a joint or connect by joints

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

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To treat or make terms.

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An articulated vehicle, such as a locomotive.

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Constructed with one or more pivoted joints which allow bending of an otherwise rigid structure.

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Of a vehicle, composed of component parts each with its own wheels and chassis, e.g. an articulated lorry, articulated bus, or certain kinds of streetcars and trains.

The inner lobe (lacinia) of the first maxilla terminates in an articulated hook, while in the second maxillae (labium) both inner and outer lobes ("ligula" and "para-glossae") are much Gyrinus sulcatus reduced.

The trolley is an articulated frame 77 ft.

The laminar portion of a leaf is occasionally articulated with the petiole, as in the orange, and a joint at times exists between the vaginal or stipulary portion and the petiole.

Against this conception Critchley has articulated an ethical discourse based on infinite alterity as a demand that calls us to engage with the world.

Some clearly articulated the need for Albania to put its own house in order.

There is usually a minimum standard (albeit not always very explicitly articulated ), regardless of expectations of grade distributions.

Occasionally they are more openly articulated, as in his engagement with Bosch.

I felt that to be a key challenge to us, however nicely articulated!

These early signs are poorly articulated in terms of handshape, location and movement.

By the time the " dollar diplomacy " of William Howard Taft was clearly articulated, the seeds of American empire were planted.

The two bones were Ovis or Capra femur and were articulated, an unfused proximal epiphysis and the shaft from the same individual.

For all that Mr Howard has articulated votersâ grievances, he has not offered a coherent program for government.

This is your chance - have a driving lesson in a massive articulated Juggernaut, and see if you can handle this giant.

Third or hindermost plate of the prosoma beneath which the sixth pair of legs is articulated.

In this way two marked forms of leaf are produced - (I) Simple form, in which the segmentation, however deeply it extends into the lamina, does not separate portions of the lamina which become articulated with the midrib or petiole; and (2) Compound form, where portions of the lamina are separated as detached leaflets, which become articulated with the midrib or petiole.

Also, while he may have hoped at this time to be able to add much (though he never did) to the sketch of his doctrine of Man contained in the unpublished " little treatise," he might extend, but could hardly otherwise modify, the sketch he had there given of his carefully articulated theory of Body Politic. Possibly, indeed, before that sketch was written early in 1640, he may, under pressure of the political excitement, have advanced no small way in the actual composition of the treatise De Cive, the third section of his projected system.

Ten families are now distinguishedDiastylidae, Lampropidae, Platyaspidae, Pseudocumidae, all with an articulated telson; without one, the Bodotriidae (formerly called Cumidae), Vaunthompsoniidae, Leuconidae, Nannastacidae, Campylaspidae, Procampylaspidae.

Occasionally the ocular lobes are articulated.

Normally the pleon carries six pairs of two-branched appendages, of which the first three are much articulated flexible swimming feet, the last three few-jointed comparatively indurated uropods.

In its simplest form the exoskeleton of a typical somite is a ring of chitin defined from the rings in front and behind by areas of thinner integument forming moveable joints, and having a pair of appendages articulated to its ventral surface on either side of the middle line.

Whether the movably articulated segments which bear the FIG.

In many Crustacea the eyes are borne on stalks which are movably articulated with the head and which may be divided into two or three segments.

In the development of the Phyllopod Branchipus, the eyes are at first sessile, and the lateral lobes of the head on which they are set grow out and become movably articulated, forming the peduncles.

These teeth are connected with a framework of movably articulated ossicles developed as thickened and calcified portions of the lining cuticle of the stomach and moved by special muscles in such a way as to bring the three teeth together in the middle line.

They are movably articulated at the base where they are inserted in pits formed by a thinning away of the cuticle, and each is supplied by a nerve-fibril.

It is with the ultimate synthesis that philosophy concerns itself; it has to show that the subject-matter which we are all dealing with in detail really is a whole, consisting of articulated members.

With Hegel it passes into a completely articulated "logic," which apparently claims to be at the same time a metaphysic, or an ultimate expression of the nature of the real.

The pectoral and ventral fins are so articulated as to perform the functions of feet, the fish being enabled to move, or rather to walk, on the bottom of the sea, where it generally hides itself in the sand or amongst sea-weed.

The leaves are usually articulated at the base, spreading, sharp-pointed and needle-like in form, destitute of oil-glands, and arranged in alternating whorls of three; but in some the leaves are minute and scale-like, closely adhering to the branches, the apex only being free, and furnished with an oil-gland on the back.

The eyes in some Crustacea are mounted on articulated stalks, and from the fact that they can after injury be replaced by antennalike appendages it is inferred that they represent the parapodia of the most anterior prosthomere.

A corolla which is continuous with the axis and not articulated to it, as in campanula and heaths, may be persistent, and remain in a withered or marcescent state while the fruit is ripening.

The anther-lobes are united to the connective, which is either continuous with the filament or articulated with it.

The non-cellular order Siphoneae is fairly well represented in Palaeozoic strata, especially by calcareous verticillate forms referable to the family Dasycladeae; the separate tubular joints of the articulated thallus, bearing the prints of the whorled branches, are sometimes cylindrical (Arthroporella, Vermiporella, &c.), sometimes oval (Sycidium) or spherical (Cyclocrinus).

C. Labyrinthodonta, with simple biconcave vertebral disks, very slightly pierced by a remnant of the notochord and supporting the loosely articulated neural arch.

So far I have not been able to find out what sort of articulated locomotive this was.

Never try to squeeze past a bus or articulated lorry, they need a wider space to turn.

The bus itself is an articulated pantechnicon that opens out to provide a fully equipped state-of-the-art classroom/kitchen for 16 students.

Their loading bay was often obstructed by builders skips and other debris, forcing large articulated trucks to park on the busy roadside.

It was found intact, lying over the articulated skeleton of a small cow.

The Prime Minister has movingly and appropriately articulated the profound sorrow we all feel following this atrocity.

The refuse was collected in enclosed rear loading articulated trailers.

An articulated lift vehicle was attached at the front to pull the tram and the Unimog went by Road to Bingham Rd LC.

He's succeeded in pushing, single-handed, his 19 ton articulated truck for a distance of 80ft.

These grand specimens had to endure a rather ungainly journey here on the back of an enormous, articulated lorry.

The account which follows traces the process of how this unease has been transformed from an intuition to an articulated viewpoint.

A rusticated ground floor on a molded plinth supports an upper floor articulated by pilasters.

It is used to describe segmental plate body armor, articulated on internal leather straps.

The trailer of an articulated lorry snagged an aerial cable, which was attached to the pole that Tara was working on.

Within fine arts, this etymological nuance has been elaborated into a full-fledged aesthetic distinction between the naked and the nude, a distinction most famously articulated by Kenneth Clark.

This policy is articulated in this law in order to prevent children from living too long in an unstable and uncertain situation.