Dilate vs Articulate - What's the difference?
dilate | articulate |
To enlarge; to make bigger.
To become wider or larger; to expand.
(ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
* Shakespeare
* Crabbe
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.
As verbs the difference between dilate and articulate
is that dilate 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.dilate
English
Verb
(dilat)- The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
- His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
- Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.
- But still on their ancient joys dilate .
Derived terms
* dilatability * dilatable * dilation * dilativeSee also
* diluteAnagrams
* English ergative verbs ----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)