articulates

Verb

articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)

1. (transitive) To make clear or effective.
2. (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.
   • I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
3. (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
   • I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
4. (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
   • an articulated bus
5. (transitive) To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
   • Articulate that passage heavily.
6. (intransitive) To form a joint or connect by joints.
   • The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.

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