Article vs. Particle — What's the Difference?

A particular item or object

In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties, such as volume, density, or mass. They vary greatly in size or quantity, from subatomic particles like the electron, to microscopic particles like atoms and molecules, to macroscopic particles like powders and other granular materials.

A piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication

A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck.

A separate clause or paragraph of a legal document or agreement, typically one outlining a single rule or regulation

A very small or the smallest possible amount, trace, or degree

A period of training with a firm as a solicitor, architect, surveyor, or accountant

A body whose spatial extent and internal motion and structure, if any, are irrelevant in a specific problem.

The definite or indefinite article.

See elementary particle.

Bind (a trainee solicitor, architect, surveyor, or accountant) to undergo a period of training with a firm in order to become qualified

See subatomic particle.

An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item

An uninflected item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in He looked up the word or to in English infinitives.

A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.

In some systems of grammatical analysis, any of various short function words, including articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.

A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.

(Ecclesiastical) A portion or fragment of the Eucharistic host.

The part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application.

(Archaic) A small part of something written, such as a clause of a document.

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the.

A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.

A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.

(physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.

To bind by articles set forth in a contract, such as one of apprenticeship.

(linguistics) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).

A piece of nonfictional writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.

(linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.

An object, a member of a group or class.

(Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.

(grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).

A little bit.

A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.

A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

A genuine article.

Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.

A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.

A crumb or little piece of consecrated host.

A person; an individual.

A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.

(archaic) A wench.

An elementary particle.

(dated) Subject matter; concern.

(nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

(dated) A distinct part.

A body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions

(obsolete) A precise point in time; a moment.

A function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs

(transitive) To bind by articles of apprenticeship.

(obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.

A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

Subject; matter; concern; distinct.

A distinct part.

A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.

Precise point of time; moment.

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.

One of the segments of an articulated appendage.

To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.

Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication

One of a class of artifacts;

A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

(grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase

Bind by a contract; especially for a training period