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Articulate vs Accurate - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between articulate and accurate

is that articulate is to treat or make terms while accurate is precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

As adjectives the difference between articulate and accurate

is that articulate is clear, effective while accurate is in exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

As a noun articulate

is an animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

As a verb articulate

is to make clear or effective.

articulate

English

(Articulation)

Etymology 1

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • clear, effective
  • especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner
  • able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals
  • Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
  • * 1728 , James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , page 146:
    • Brutes cannot form articulate'' Sounds, cannot ''articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
    Synonyms
    * (good at speaking) eloquent, well-spoken

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

    • Etymology 2

    From the adjective.

    Verb

    (articulat)
  • To make clear or effective.
  • To speak clearly; to enunciate.
    • I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
  • To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
    • I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
  • To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
    • an articulated bus
  • (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
    • Articulate that passage heavily.
  • (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
    • The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
  • (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Derived terms
    *
    Related terms
    * articulation * pseudoarticulated * pseudoarticulation

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    accurate

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
  • *
    • For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
  • Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
  • (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
  • * Bacon
    • Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.

    Usage notes

    * We speak of a thing as correct' with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a '''correct''' account, a '''correct''' likeness, a man of ' correct deportment. * We speak of a thing as accurate' with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an '''accurate''' statement, an ' accurate detail of particulars. * We speak of a thing as exact' with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an '''exact''' coincidence, the '''exact''' truth, an ' exact likeness. * We speak of a thing as precise' when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if ''cut down'' thereto; as a '''precise''' conformity instructions; '''precisely''' right; he was very ' precise in giving his directions.

    Synonyms

    * correct * exact * just * nice * particular

    Antonyms

    * inaccurate

    Derived terms

    * accuracy * accurately

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