Difference between Articulate and Phrase

What is the difference between Articulate and Phrase?

Articulate as a verb is to make clear or effective. while Phrase as a verb is to perform a passage with the correct phrasing.

Articulate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: clear, effective especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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. to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc. to form a joint or connect by joints

Example sentence: A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Phrase

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A short written or spoken expression.A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.A small section of music in a larger piece.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words.To divide into melodic phrases.

Example sentence: I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

We hope you now know whether to use Articulate or Phrase in your sentence.

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