articulatedadj.

Brit.

/ɑːˈtɪkjᵿleɪtᵻd/, U.S.

/ɑrˈtɪkjəˌleɪdᵻd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: articulate v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < articulate v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare articulate adj.

I. Senses relating to a joint or joints.

a. Composed of segments that are linked or united by joints; (of skeletal remains) still attached at the joints, or reassembled from individual bones. Also: having prominent or apparent joints. Cf. articulate adj. 8a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > [adjective]

articular?a1475

articulated1571

de-articulated1615

articulate1638

arthritical1646

de-articulate1650

articulous1684

articulating1691

articulary1773

interarticular1808

conjugational1853

intertrochlear1870

intra-articular1890

juxta-articular1900

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > jointed

jointed1413

articulated1571

gimmaled1596

articulate1610

huckled1614

well-articulated1663

joint1685

vertebrated1840

1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xvii. f. 56 The legges shorte and musculous: the armes long, and grose or bigge, the feete bigge, and articulated.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 157 The articulated Fingers.

1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting v. 231 The Hands and Feet rather Plump than sensibly articulated.

1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 5 The Antennæ of Ants are what Virtuosi call articulated.

1792 T. Jefferson Hessian Fly in Papers (1990) XXIV. 12 2 antennae..articulated, moniliform, the last article truncated.

1813 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. v. 112 The columns at Fairhead are not articulated like those at the Giant's Causeway.

1839 J. Lindley School Bot. 4 If a stem is swelled at the part where the leaves grow, and capable of being snapped across,..it is called articulated or jointed.

1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 20 There were also traces of wire and iron hinges at the joints... This skeleton once had been what we call an ‘articulated skeleton’.

1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms viii. 80 Metallic belts are articulated devices.

1993 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. v. 13/1 A Roman legionary, kitted out in helmet and articulated armor and carrying javelin and spear.

2001 Sci. Amer. Aug. 54/2 The vast majority of Anasazi burials involve whole, articulated skeletons frequently accompanied by decorated ceramic vessels.

b. Of a vehicle: consisting of flexibly connected sections.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of train

carriaged1776

steam-hauled1835

steam-operated1835

jerkwater1852

articulated1884

vestibuled1890

multiple-unit1902

air-braked1905

collision-proof1906

pull-and-push1914

push-and-pull1927

sealed1949

drive-on1954

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [adjective] > articulated

articulated1884

1884 Delta (Pa.) Herald 6 June 1/6 They don't say in Boston now, ‘I got the cart before the horse’, but ‘I placed the articulated circumlocutory vehicle in precedence of the quadrupedal vertebrate’.

1923 Sci. Amer. Jan. 12/3 Attention has been drawn to the articulated train, in which the abutting ends of the passenger cars are carried upon a common truck.

1960 E. L. Cornwell Commerc. Road Vehicles ix. 250 The articulated vehicle, weight for weight, generally has a rather lower payload capacity than a rigid vehicle.

2002 F. Broughton & B. Brewster How to DJ (Properly) 109 It's like learning to drive in a Mini and then being given the keys to an articulated lorry.

c. figurative and in figurative contexts. With modifying adverb: composed of connected parts (in the manner or to the degree specified).

ΚΠ

1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe iii. 122 The pettifogging lawyers who swarmed around the minutely articulated social structure.

1932 J. Murphy tr. M. Planck Where is Sci. Going? i. 44 At the end of the last century the science of theoretical physics as a whole presented the imposing aspect of a complete and perfectly articulated structure.

1998 Fast Company Aug. 88/1 MacTemps—perhaps the most robust and fully articulated example of a company that's reckoning with a world in which human capital functions like financial capital.

2. Attached or united by a joint. Also figurative. Cf. articulate adj. 6.

ΚΠ

1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 549 It preserves the ends of the articulated Bones from an inordinate incalescence.

1733 G. Douglas tr. J. B. Winslow Anat. Expos. Struct. Human Body I. 14 The planiform Diarthrosis is when the articulated Bones slip upon one another, much in the same manner, as when we rub the Palm of one Hand against the other.

1876 A. Macalister Introd. Animal Morphol. & Systematic Zool.: Invertebrata xxxiv. 242 Their structure can be easily understood by regarding them as Vermes with no articulated appendages, modified by..a fusion of metameres.

1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 44 Articulated blade, a blade connected to the rotor head by one or more hinges or pivots.

1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 261 489 The walls of the brass tubes were rounded off on the inside at the articulated ends.

2005 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 14 Oct. It is a collection of clearly articulated parts, not a hulking monolith.

3. Zoology. Having a jointed external skeleton. Cf. articulate adj. 8c. Now rare.In quot. 1826, used unconventionally of both invertebrates and vertebrates.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > subkingdom Articulata > [adjective]

articulate1830

articulated1831

1826 Lancet 7 Oct. 13/2 Animals have been separated into the two great divisions of the articulated and the non-articulated. The articulated are again divided into those which are articulated internally, and those which are articulated externally.]

1831 Lancet 5 Nov. 200/1 It is the best monograph that has been written on any portion of comparative anatomy, and almost the only authority we have on the structure of articulated animals.

1860 J. Samuelson Honey-bee ii. 11 An articulated animal; that is an animal..composed of a number of articulations or rings.

1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 12 218 Peripatus is a low form of articulated animal.

1922 Sci. Monthly Aug. 107 A fourth great group is the Arthropoda, embracing the hosts of articulated animals.

1980 J. S. Garth & D. P. Abbott in R. H. Morris et al. Intertidal Invertebr. Calif. xxv. 594 The Brachyura represent the highest development attained by articulated animals in the sea.

II. Senses relating to vocal articulation.

4. Formed into or consisting of articulate speech or thought; uttered, pronounced, or expressed distinctly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > divided into

articulated1608

well-articulated1663

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. i. 249 Such pure bodies haue nor teeth, nor tongues, Lips, artires, nose, palate, nor panting lungs, Which rightly plac't are properly created True instruments of sounds articulated.

1612 A. Nixon Dignitie of Man 19 Man onely hath articulated and well distinguished soundes.

1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi ccxxxiii. 467 That Man's Head of brass made by Albertus Magnus, which fram'd an articulated Man's Voice.

a1711 T. Ken Psyche i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 172 To speak..My sorrow in articulated Tear.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. v. 121 When she had power to speak, or to distinguish articulated sounds, she demanded who detained her.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 390 The same words may be repeated; but in each second of time the articulated air hath passed away.

1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xii. 205 Which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. i. 3 Language begins only when articulated sounds are combined and coördinated by one person's mind as the external signs for a communication..understandable as such by another.

1960 W. Fowlie Dionysus in Paris iv. i. 162 As Saul's obsession over David grows, his familiarity with the demons increases and they begin to participate in the articulated thoughts of the King.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Jan. 26/3 By this time Jonathan was clearly autistic; his speech now down to a few, poorly articulated words.

III. Senses relating to articles.

5. Formulated or set out in articles; clearly structured.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > going into detail > set forth in detail

articled1545

articulate1579

articulated1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Articulé, articulated, articled; set downe in, reduced unto, articles.

1848 R. D. Hampden Bampton Lect. 100 A minutely articulated system of Theology.

1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 23 They know nothing of an articulated creed which may be blindly assented to by young and old.

1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 v. 509 To an American audience English judges and academic writers often seem almost exclusively concerned with the analysis of articulated doctrines.

1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Feb. 20/2 Earl never had an articulated political program like his brother's, or even a slogan, but Longism as he practiced it was consistent throughout his career.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	articulated
释义	articulatedadj. Brit. /ɑːˈtɪkjᵿleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ɑrˈtɪkjəˌleɪdᵻd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: articulate v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < articulate v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare articulate adj. I. Senses relating to a joint or joints. 1. a. Composed of segments that are linked or united by joints; (of skeletal remains) still attached at the joints, or reassembled from individual bones. Also: having prominent or apparent joints. Cf. articulate adj. 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > [adjective] articular?a1475 articulated1571 de-articulated1615 articulate1638 arthritical1646 de-articulate1650 articulous1684 articulating1691 articulary1773 interarticular1808 conjugational1853 intertrochlear1870 intra-articular1890 juxta-articular1900 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > jointed jointed1413 articulated1571 gimmaled1596 articulate1610 huckled1614 well-articulated1663 joint1685 vertebrated1840 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xvii. f. 56 The legges shorte and musculous: the armes long, and grose or bigge, the feete bigge, and articulated. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 157 The articulated Fingers. 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting v. 231 The Hands and Feet rather Plump than sensibly articulated. 1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 5 The Antennæ of Ants are what Virtuosi call articulated. 1792 T. Jefferson Hessian Fly in Papers (1990) XXIV. 12 2 antennae..articulated, moniliform, the last article truncated. 1813 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. v. 112 The columns at Fairhead are not articulated like those at the Giant's Causeway. 1839 J. Lindley School Bot. 4 If a stem is swelled at the part where the leaves grow, and capable of being snapped across,..it is called articulated or jointed. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 20 There were also traces of wire and iron hinges at the joints... This skeleton once had been what we call an ‘articulated skeleton’. 1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms viii. 80 Metallic belts are articulated devices. 1993 N.Y. Times 7 Nov. v. 13/1 A Roman legionary, kitted out in helmet and articulated armor and carrying javelin and spear. 2001 Sci. Amer. Aug. 54/2 The vast majority of Anasazi burials involve whole, articulated skeletons frequently accompanied by decorated ceramic vessels. b. Of a vehicle: consisting of flexibly connected sections. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of train carriaged1776 steam-hauled1835 steam-operated1835 jerkwater1852 articulated1884 vestibuled1890 multiple-unit1902 air-braked1905 collision-proof1906 pull-and-push1914 push-and-pull1927 sealed1949 drive-on1954 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [adjective] > articulated articulated1884 1884 Delta (Pa.) Herald 6 June 1/6 They don't say in Boston now, ‘I got the cart before the horse’, but ‘I placed the articulated circumlocutory vehicle in precedence of the quadrupedal vertebrate’. 1923 Sci. Amer. Jan. 12/3 Attention has been drawn to the articulated train, in which the abutting ends of the passenger cars are carried upon a common truck. 1960 E. L. Cornwell Commerc. Road Vehicles ix. 250 The articulated vehicle, weight for weight, generally has a rather lower payload capacity than a rigid vehicle. 2002 F. Broughton & B. Brewster How to DJ (Properly) 109 It's like learning to drive in a Mini and then being given the keys to an articulated lorry. c. figurative and in figurative contexts. With modifying adverb: composed of connected parts (in the manner or to the degree specified). ΚΠ 1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe iii. 122 The pettifogging lawyers who swarmed around the minutely articulated social structure. 1932 J. Murphy tr. M. Planck Where is Sci. Going? i. 44 At the end of the last century the science of theoretical physics as a whole presented the imposing aspect of a complete and perfectly articulated structure. 1998 Fast Company Aug. 88/1 MacTemps—perhaps the most robust and fully articulated example of a company that's reckoning with a world in which human capital functions like financial capital. 2. Attached or united by a joint. Also figurative. Cf. articulate adj. 6. ΚΠ 1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 549 It preserves the ends of the articulated Bones from an inordinate incalescence. 1733 G. Douglas tr. J. B. Winslow Anat. Expos. Struct. Human Body I. 14 The planiform Diarthrosis is when the articulated Bones slip upon one another, much in the same manner, as when we rub the Palm of one Hand against the other. 1876 A. Macalister Introd. Animal Morphol. & Systematic Zool.: Invertebrata xxxiv. 242 Their structure can be easily understood by regarding them as Vermes with no articulated appendages, modified by..a fusion of metameres. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 44 Articulated blade, a blade connected to the rotor head by one or more hinges or pivots. 1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 261 489 The walls of the brass tubes were rounded off on the inside at the articulated ends. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 14 Oct. It is a collection of clearly articulated parts, not a hulking monolith. 3. Zoology. Having a jointed external skeleton. Cf. articulate adj. 8c. Now rare.In quot. 1826, used unconventionally of both invertebrates and vertebrates. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > subkingdom Articulata > [adjective] articulate1830 articulated1831 1826 Lancet 7 Oct. 13/2 Animals have been separated into the two great divisions of the articulated and the non-articulated. The articulated are again divided into those which are articulated internally, and those which are articulated externally.] 1831 Lancet 5 Nov. 200/1 It is the best monograph that has been written on any portion of comparative anatomy, and almost the only authority we have on the structure of articulated animals. 1860 J. Samuelson Honey-bee ii. 11 An articulated animal; that is an animal..composed of a number of articulations or rings. 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 12 218 Peripatus is a low form of articulated animal. 1922 Sci. Monthly Aug. 107 A fourth great group is the Arthropoda, embracing the hosts of articulated animals. 1980 J. S. Garth & D. P. Abbott in R. H. Morris et al. Intertidal Invertebr. Calif. xxv. 594 The Brachyura represent the highest development attained by articulated animals in the sea. II. Senses relating to vocal articulation. 4. Formed into or consisting of articulate speech or thought; uttered, pronounced, or expressed distinctly. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > divided into articulated1608 well-articulated1663 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. i. 249 Such pure bodies haue nor teeth, nor tongues, Lips, artires, nose, palate, nor panting lungs, Which rightly plac't are properly created True instruments of sounds articulated. 1612 A. Nixon Dignitie of Man 19 Man onely hath articulated and well distinguished soundes. 1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi ccxxxiii. 467 That Man's Head of brass made by Albertus Magnus, which fram'd an articulated Man's Voice. a1711 T. Ken Psyche i, in Wks. (1721) IV. 172 To speak..My sorrow in articulated Tear. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. v. 121 When she had power to speak, or to distinguish articulated sounds, she demanded who detained her. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 390 The same words may be repeated; but in each second of time the articulated air hath passed away. 1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xii. 205 Which had hardly risen into the region of inwardly articulated thought. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. i. 3 Language begins only when articulated sounds are combined and coördinated by one person's mind as the external signs for a communication..understandable as such by another. 1960 W. Fowlie Dionysus in Paris iv. i. 162 As Saul's obsession over David grows, his familiarity with the demons increases and they begin to participate in the articulated thoughts of the King. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Jan. 26/3 By this time Jonathan was clearly autistic; his speech now down to a few, poorly articulated words. III. Senses relating to articles. 5. Formulated or set out in articles; clearly structured. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > going into detail > set forth in detail articled1545 articulate1579 articulated1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Articulé, articulated, articled; set downe in, reduced unto, articles. 1848 R. D. Hampden Bampton Lect. 100 A minutely articulated system of Theology. 1880 E. White Certainty in Relig. 23 They know nothing of an articulated creed which may be blindly assented to by young and old. 1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 v. 509 To an American audience English judges and academic writers often seem almost exclusively concerned with the analysis of articulated doctrines. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Feb. 20/2 Earl never had an articulated political program like his brother's, or even a slogan, but Longism as he practiced it was consistent throughout his career. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1571
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