Articulate vs Intelligent - What's the difference?
articulate | intelligent |
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.
Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
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Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
Having the same level of brain power as mankind.
Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
As adjectives the difference between articulate and intelligent
is that articulate is clear, effective while intelligent is of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.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
.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
*External links
* * English heteronyms ----intelligent
English
Alternative forms
* entelligentAdjective
(en-adj)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
