What's the difference between articulate and attack?

Articulate


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
  • (a.) Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
  • (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.
  • (n.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
  • (v. i.) To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.
  • (v. i.) To treat or make terms.
  • (v. i.) To join or be connected by articulation.
  • (v. t.) To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
  • (v. t.) To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify.
  • (v. t.) To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.
  • (v. t.) To express distinctly; to give utterance to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
  • (2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (3) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (4) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
  • (5) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
  • (6) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.
  • (7) Articulation tests for sound fields simulated with a single reflection of delay time delta t1 after the direct sound were conducted changing the horizontal incident angle xi of the reflection.
  • (8) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
  • (9) During walking, all components of sacroiliac articulation and the symphysis pubis are apparently subjected to sudden changes in stress.
  • (10) An artificial joint that articulates with full fluid film lubrication could greatly reduce wear and frictional torque and hence reduce the incidence of loosening and inflammatory tissue reaction.
  • (11) The articulation of these two subsystems is brought about in the process of diagnosis.
  • (12) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (13) Each clinician completed a standard articulation inventory based on a video-tape presentation and then rated the child's articulation on a nine-point scale.
  • (14) The results of this study show that myofunctional therapy is highly instrumental also in phoniatrics as a special form of treatment for disorders of articulation.
  • (15) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (16) In the region of sacroiliac articulation are the highest subchondral densities, both at the cranial and caudal edges, whereas the central part of the two auricular surfaces is less heavily mineralized.
  • (17) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
  • (18) But Pussy Riot were the first, perhaps because they had aimed and articulated their protest so well.
  • (19) "What we're disappointed about is government hasn't held on to articulating clearly the links and opportunities of care for the environment and economic success and development."
  • (20) Where knowledge is insufficient to permit articulation of absolute standards, guidelines for its clinical use are presented.

Attack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
  • (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
  • (v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.
  • (v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • (v. i.) To make an onset or attack.
  • (n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
  • (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
  • (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
  • (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
  • (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
  • (3) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (4) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (5) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (6) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
  • (7) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (8) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (9) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (10) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
  • (11) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (12) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (13) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (14) Treatment with salbutamol inhalation had a beneficial effect on the duration of their adynamic attacks.
  • (15) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
  • (16) The remain side have already targeted Johnson’s credibility in attacks that the Brexiters believe were orchestrated by Downing Street.
  • (17) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (18) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
  • (19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
  • (20) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.