different between articulate vs dispute

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disput?re (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + put?re (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”), related to purus (“pure”). Compare compute, count, impute, repute, amputate, etc.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?s.pju?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?pju?t/
• (verb)
  • IPA^(key): /d?s?pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

dispute (plural disputes)

1. An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
2. (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.

   • Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dispute

Translations

Verb

dispute (third-person singular simple present disputes, present participle disputing, simple past and past participle disputed)

1. (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
2. (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss

3. to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance

4. to strive or contend about; to contest
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

5. (obsolete) to struggle against; to resist

Derived terms

• industrial dispute

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Latin disput?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pyt/

Noun

dispute f (plural disputes)

1. dispute

Related terms

• disputer

Descendants

• ? Romanian: disput?

Further reading

• “dispute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• stupide

Italian

Noun

dispute f

1. plural of disputa

Anagrams

• stupide

Portuguese

Verb

dispute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of disputar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of disputar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of disputar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of disputar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [di?spute]

Noun

dispute f

1. indefinite plural of disput?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of disput?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?pute/, [d?is?pu.t?e]

Verb

dispute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of disputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of disputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of disputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of disputar.