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Bid vs Articulate - What's the difference?

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Bid is a related term of articulate.


As verbs the difference between bid and articulate

is that bid is while articulate is to make clear or effective.

As an adjective articulate is

clear, effective.

As a noun articulate is

(label) an animal of the subkingdom articulata.

bid

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (medicine) Bis in die : twice a day, two times per day.
  • Commonly written as: "amoxicillin 500 mg BID ", read as: "amoxicillin totalling 500 milligram dosage (daily total), taken two times a day".

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    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)
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