What's the difference between articulate and slur?

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.

Slur


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
  • (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.
  • (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
  • (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
  • (v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
  • (v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
  • (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
  • (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
  • (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
  • (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following points should be emphasized: Besides the right proximal blocks, which are more frequent, right distal ones can also be diagnosed by the presence of slurred R wave and delayed onset of the intrinsicoid deflection in only some right leads.
  • (2) Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures.
  • (3) Mostly white men surrounded protesters and shouted racist and Islamophobic slurs and anti-Hillary Clinton chants while moving in closer, said Sudip Bhattacharya.
  • (4) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (5) In the youngest animals the presence of an additional peak (between II and III) and the slurring of peaks III and IV were consistent features.
  • (6) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
  • (7) The family of an Oklahoma man shot to death outside his home are pointing to a history of criminal charges and racial slurs by the alleged killer.
  • (8) The two men were said to be drunk during the flight when the retired striker was reportedly subjected to racial slurs.
  • (9) In a clip of the video posted on the newspaper’s website, one of the men appears to be heard calling one of the women a “slit eye” in a racist slur.
  • (10) Patrick, his stepson, faced similar racial slurs as officers asked him for the location of illegal guns because, as he recalled an officer saying, “you fuckers are making more money a day than I am”.
  • (11) But even as the city attempted to clean up the mess, another group of at least four San Francisco police officers was exchanging text messages that mocked the community response to the scandal, used racist slurs and denigrated LGBT people.
  • (12) The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word.
  • (13) "Would you have run the article if it had contained similar slurs regarding people of colour or people with disabilities?"
  • (14) The mother, identified only as Joanne, said Goodes should not have singled out her daughter for using the racial slur, and blamed the altercation for the booing and criticism Goodes has faced since.
  • (15) She has also stumbled over her words and slurred her way through several shows in the past, prompting concerns about her health.
  • (16) The 69-year-old business mogul has made a series of slurs against immigrants, including the allegation that Mexico is sending “drug dealers” and “rapists” to the US.
  • (17) The attackers, dressed in dark clothes and wearing masks, had been at the protest hassling people on Monday evening, according to witnesses, who also said they heard them use racial slurs.
  • (18) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
  • (19) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
  • (20) Although he has fiercely rejected claims made by Engelina Tareyeva, a former colleague in Yabloko, that he routinely used "racial slurs", some of his remarks have sailed very close.