Articulate vs Concatenate - What's the difference?
articulate | concatenate |
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 join or link together, as though in a chain.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
As verbs the difference between articulate and concatenate
is that articulate is to make clear or effective while concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain.As an adjective articulate
is clear, effective.As a noun articulate
is (label) an animal of the subkingdom articulata.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 ----concatenate
English
(Wikipedia)Verb
(concatenat)- Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion , the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
- Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
- The Unix program is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.