{
    "term": "articulate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "articulate",
            "heSheIt": "articulates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "articulated",
        "pastParticiple": "articulated",
        "ingForm": "articulating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to express or explain your thoughts or feelings clearly in words",
            "sensetop": "articulate something (to somebody)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She struggled to articulate her thoughts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is the school’s duty to articulate its practices to parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He cannot articulate his feelings very well."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need to articulate clearly what you are trying to achieve."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "well", "explicitly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to speak, pronounce or play something in a clear way",
            "sensetop": "articulate something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was too weak to articulate properly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every note was carefully articulated.",
                    "contextForm": "articulate something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke slowly, articulating each word clearly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["carefully", "clearly", "well"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to be related to something so that together the two parts form a whole",
            "sensetop": "articulate (with something)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These courses are designed to articulate with university degrees."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to be joined to something else by a joint, so that movement is possible; to join something in this way",
            "sensetop": "articulate (with something)articulate something",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "bones that articulate with others",
                    "contextForm": "articulate (with something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a robot with articulated limbs",
                    "contextForm": "articulate something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːˈtɪkjuleɪt/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːˈtɪkjuleɪts/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːˈtɪkjuleɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːˈtɪkjuleɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːrˈtɪkjuleɪt/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːrˈtɪkjuleɪts/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːrˈtɪkjuleɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɑːrˈtɪkjuleɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ar/articulate/articulating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from Latin articulatus, past participle of articulare ‘divide into joints, utter distinctly’, from articulus ‘small connecting part’, diminutive of artus ‘joint’."
}