Articulate vs Blabber - What's the difference?
articulate | blabber |
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.
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:
To make clear or effective.
To speak clearly; to enunciate.
To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
(music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
(anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
(obsolete) To treat or make terms.
To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
* 2014 , Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift
To blab; to let out a secret.
As nouns the difference between articulate and blabber
is that articulate is an animal of the subkingdom Articulata while blabber is a person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.As verbs the difference between articulate and blabber
is that articulate is to make clear or effective while blabber is to blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.As an adjective articulate
is clear, effective.articulate
English
(Articulation)Etymology 1
.Adjective
(en adjective)- (Francis Bacon)
- 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-spokenEtymology 2
From the adjective.Verb
(articulat)- I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- an articulated bus
- Articulate that passage heavily.
- The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
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* * English heteronyms ----blabber
English
Verb
(en verb)- He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.