different between phrase vs articulate

English

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from ????? (phráz?, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?z, IPA^(key): /f?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: fraise, frays

Noun

phrase (plural phrases)

1. A short written or spoken expression.

2. (grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
3. (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
4. (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

   • phrases of the hearth
5. (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.

Synonyms

• (expression): figure of speech, locution
• See also Thesaurus:phrase

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

phrase (third-person singular simple present phrases, present participle phrasing, simple past and past participle phrased)

1. (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.

   I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
2. (intransitive, music) To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
3. (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.

Derived terms

• phrasing

Related terms

• paraphrase
• rephrase

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Sherpa, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sherpa, shrape, sphear

French

Etymology

From Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from ????? (phráz?, “I tell, express”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??z/

Noun

phrase f (plural phrases)

1. sentence

Derived terms

• phrase complexe
• phrase simple
• tournure de phrase

Usage notes

• This is a false friend to English phrase.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• harpes, phares

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?p?ra.se/, [?p??äs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fra.se/, [?f???s??]

Noun

phrase

1. ablative singular of phrasis

Portuguese

Noun

phrase f (plural phrases)

1. Obsolete spelling of frase (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

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