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A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united , or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance , or they may be more or less freely movable, when the

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A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united , or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance , or they may be more or less freely movable, when the articular surfaces are covered with synovial membranes, as in complete joints . The last includes hinge joints, admitting motion in one plane only , ball and socket joints , pivot and rotation joints, etc. The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods. One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize. One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley. 3. The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint. 4. The state of being jointed; connection of parts. That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge. 5. The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation. 6. A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARTICULATION)

• Joint
• Articulation
• junction
• flexure
• elbow
• knee
• Language
• Speech
• talk
• conversation
• dialect
• discourse
• tongue
• diction
• phraseology
• articulation
• accents
• vernacular
• expression
• Voice
• Tone
• utterance
• language
• words
• signification
• opinion
• vote
• suffrage
• say
• control

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ARTICULATION)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to ARTICULATION)

• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• VERNACULAR
  Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• DICTION
  Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• JOINTING
  The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• NONVERNACULAR
  Not vernacular. A nonvernacular expression. Sir W. Hamilton.
• SEJUNCTION
  The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. Bp. Pearson.