Articulate

1. n. An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
2. a. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
3. a. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
4. a. Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.
5. v. t. To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
6. v. t. To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify.
7. v. t. To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.