English > articulation: 5 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech. |
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| Narrower | affrication | The conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate |
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| aspiration | A manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath |
| enunciation, diction | The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience |
| epenthesis | The insertion of a vowel / vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier |
| nasalization, nasalisation | The act of nasalizing / nasalizing |
| retroflection, retroflexion | An articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth |
| sandhi | The articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech) |
| syncope, syncopation | (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle') |
| thickness | indistinct articulation |
| trill | The articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant 'r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula |
| Broader | pronunciation | The manner in which someone utters a word |
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| Spanish | articulación, modo de articulación |
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| Catalan | articulació, mode d'articulació |
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| Adjectives | articulatory, articulative | of or relating to articulation |
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| Verbs | articulate | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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English > articulation: 5 senses > noun 4, body| Meaning | (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion / motion). |
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| Synonyms | joint, articulatio |
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| Category | anatomy, general anatomy | The branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals |
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| Part of | articulatory system | The system of joints in the body |
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| endoskeleton | The internal skeleton |
| Parts | articular muscle | A muscle that inserts directly onto the capsule of a joint |
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| hip socket | The socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone |
| Narrower | elbow | The joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow |
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| fetlock, fetlock joint | The joint between the cannon bone and the pastern |
| hock, hock-joint | tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals |
| stifle, knee | joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped |
| suture, sutura, fibrous joint | An immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) |
| synovial joint, articulatio synovialis, diarthrosis | A joint so articulated as to move freely |
| Broader | body part | Any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity |
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| Spanish | articulación, articulatio |
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| Catalan | articulació, articulatio, juntura |
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| Adjectives | articular, articulary | relating to or affecting the joints of the body |
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| Verbs | articulate | provide with a joint |
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