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Articulate vs Vocalization - What's the difference?

articulate | vocalization |

In lang=en terms the difference between articulate and vocalization

is that articulate is to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc while vocalization is the production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise.

As nouns the difference between articulate and vocalization

is that articulate is an animal of the subkingdom Articulata while vocalization is the act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance.

As an adjective articulate

is clear, effective.

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
    *

    vocalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
  • Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
  • The use of speech to express an idea
  • (music) The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
  • (orthography) The vowel diacritics in Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
  • (linguistics) (w) of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people'' or the coda one in words like ''cold'' or ''coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[?], [u], [?] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in (African American Vernacular English), one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [p?ip?], [k?o?d], or [k?o?] respectively.
  • Synonyms

    * vowelization (supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts ) * tashkil (Arabic ) * nikud (Hebrew )