different between affirm vs articulate

English

Etymology

From Middle English affirmen, affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Verb

affirm (third-person singular simple present affirms, present participle affirming, simple past and past participle affirmed)

1. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.

   She affirmed that she would go when I asked her.

2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
3. To support or encourage.

   They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence.

4. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.

Synonyms

• validate

Antonyms

• disaffirm
• deny (of 1,2)
• repudiate (of 2)
• invalidate (of 4)

Related terms

• affirmation
• affirmative

Translations

See also

• affirmative action
• confirm

Further reading

• affirm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• affirm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• affirm at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin articul?tus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.l?t/
• (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /????t?k.j?.l?t/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?t
• Rhymes: -?kj?le?t

Adjective

articulate (comparative more articulate, superlative most articulate)

1. Clear; effective.
2. Speaking in a clear and effective manner.

3. Consisting of segments united by joints.

4. Distinctly marked off.

5. (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

   • articulate sounds

6. (obsolete, of sound) 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

Translations

Noun

articulate (plural articulates)

1. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
   • 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)

     They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.

Etymology 2

From the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.le?t/
• (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /????t?k.j?.le?t/

Verb

articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)

1. To make clear or effective.
2. To speak clearly; to enunciate.

   I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.

3. To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.

   I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.

4. To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.

   an articulated bus

5. (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.

   Articulate that passage heavily.

6. (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints

   The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.

7. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.

Derived terms

• articulable

Related terms

• articulation
• pseudoarticulated
• pseudoarticulation

Translations

Further reading

• articulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• articulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

articul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of articul?

References

• articulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette