Stipulate vs Articulate - What's the difference?
stipulate | articulate |
To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
clear, effective
especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner
able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals
Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
* 1728 , James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , page 146:
To make clear or effective.
To speak clearly; to enunciate.
To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
(music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
(anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
(obsolete) To treat or make terms.
As verbs the difference between stipulate and articulate
is that stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement while articulate is to make clear or effective.As adjectives the difference between stipulate and articulate
is that stipulate is having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk while articulate is clear, effective.As a noun articulate is
an animal of the subkingdom Articulata.stipulate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(stipulat)Derived terms
* stipulated * stipulation * stipulativeEtymology 2
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* exstipulatearticulate
English
(Articulation)Etymology 1
.Adjective
(en adjective)- (Francis Bacon)
- Brutes cannot form articulate'' Sounds, cannot ''articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
Synonyms
* (good at speaking) eloquent, well-spokenEtymology 2
From the adjective.Verb
(articulat)- I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- an articulated bus
- Articulate that passage heavily.
- The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
- (Shakespeare)