What's the difference between articulate and explain?

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.

Explain


Definition:

  • (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
  • (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
  • (v. i.) To give an explanation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (3) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (4) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (5) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
  • (6) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (7) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
  • (8) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (9) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
  • (10) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
  • (11) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
  • (12) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (13) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
  • (14) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
  • (15) Inhibition of local thrombin formation by warfarin therapy could explain the beneficial effects of warfarin therapy in treating small cell carcinoma of the lung.
  • (16) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (17) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
  • (18) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
  • (19) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
  • (20) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.