Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that articulates.
- noun One of the organs of speech, such as the lips or tongue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who articulates. One who utters or pronounces words.
- noun One who articulates bones or mounts skeletons.
- noun An apparatus for obtaining the correct articulation of artificial sets of teeth.
- noun A contrivance for preventing or curing stammering.
- noun An attachment to the telephone, producing regularity of vibrations and smoothness of tone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
articulates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who pronounces words
- noun a movable speech organ
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s an ancient relative of mammals, and the jaw joint in this animal is formed by two bones, that blue one marked by a “Q” in the top jaw and the red one, which is called the articulator, in the lower jaw.
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"He became the articulator of what I had felt," notes Black, who had seen the aftermath of the worst of Nazi atrocities when he helped liberate Buchenwald while serving in the Army during World War II.
Chris Benson: King's First Chicago Speech: A Message of Hope That Still Resonates and Challenges Chris Benson 2011
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To Kaldestad I said, "Do you usually send the whole model back to the lab or just knock them off the articulator?"
Static 2010
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Who is to be blamed, the articulator or the reader.
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The national security adviser should not try to compete with the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense as the articulator of public policy, the report had concluded; rather, he should generally operate offstage.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Kissinger was also the administrations principal off-the-record policy articulator and spokesman.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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The national security adviser should not try to compete with the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense as the articulator of public policy, the report had concluded; rather, he should generally operate offstage.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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When taking on a public role, the adviser becomes not just a confidential counselor to the president and manager of the process but a public articulator and advocate for particular policies.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Kissinger was also the administrations principal off-the-record policy articulator and spokesman.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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When taking on a public role, the adviser becomes not just a confidential counselor to the president and manager of the process but a public articulator and advocate for particular policies.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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