Articulation vs Articulate - What's the difference?
articulation | articulate |
(countable, or, uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
(countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
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(uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.''
(music, uncountable) The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).
(accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
* 1991 , Stephen P. Taylor, “From Moneyflows Accounts to Flow-of-Funds Accounts”, printed in John C. Dawson (editor), Flow-of-Funds Analysis: A Handbook for Practitioners , M.E. Sharpe (1996), ISBN 978-1-56324-645-6,
* 2005 , David T. Collins, “Accounting and Financial Reporting Issues”, Chapter 6 of Robert L. Brown and Alan S. Gutterman (editors), Emerging Companies Guide: A Resource for Professionals and Entrepreneurs , American Bar Association, ISBN 978-1-59031-466-1,
* 2005 , Roger L. Burritt, “Challenges for Environmental Management Accounting”, Chapter 2 of Pall M. Rikhardsson et al. (editors), Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges , Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-3371-1,
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.
Articulate is a related term of articulation.
As nouns the difference between articulation and articulate
is that articulation is a joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending while articulate is an animal of the subkingdom Articulata.As an adjective articulate is
clear, effective.As a verb articulate is
to make clear or effective.articulation
English
(wikipedia articulation)Noun
(en noun)- The articulation allowed the robot to move around corners.
- His volume is reasonable, but his articulation could use work.
- The articulation in this piece is tricky because it alternates between legato and staccato.
page 103:
- At the time the outstanding distinction that could be seen between Copeland-Fed on the one hand and Goldsmith-Friend on the other was that the flow-of-funds system explicitly included nonfinancial transactions in the statistical structure in direct articulation with financial flows and stocks.
page 169:
- Particular income statement accounts (revenues and expenses) are linked to particular balance sheet accounts (assets and liabilities); that is, there is articulation between the income statement and the balance sheet.
page 28:
- The emphasis on articulated information about environmental liabilities in the management accounts is not stressed. Articulation between stock and flow information in physical environment terms receives less attention.
Derived terms
* hyperarticulation * inarticulation * interarticulation * overarticulation * underarticulationarticulate
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)