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Articulate vs Hiss - What's the difference?

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Articulate is a related term of hiss.


As nouns the difference between articulate and hiss

is that articulate is (label) an animal of the subkingdom articulata while hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.

As verbs the difference between articulate and hiss

is that articulate is to make clear or effective while hiss is to make a hissing sound.

As an adjective articulate

is clear, 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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    hiss

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
  • An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.

    • Verb

  • To make a hissing sound.
    • As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
    The arrow hissed through the air.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=John Elkington , title=John Elkington , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."}}
  • To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
    • The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
  • * Shakespeare
    • if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
  • To utter with a hissing sound.
  • * Tennyson
    • the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise