Articulate vs. Communicate — What's the Difference?

Composed of distinct, meaningful syllables or words

To convey information about; make known; impart

Expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language

To reveal clearly; manifest

Characterized by the use of clear, expressive language

To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit

Having the power of speech.

To have an interchange, as of ideas.

(Biology) Consisting of sections united by joints; jointed.

To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood

To pronounce distinctly and carefully; enunciate.

(Ecclesiastical) To receive Communion.

To utter (a speech sound) by making the necessary movements of the speech organs.

To be connected, one with another

To express in coherent verbal form

To impart

To fit together into a coherent whole; unify

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.

To convert (a student's credits at one school) to credits at another school by comparing the curricula.

(transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.

(Biology) To unite by forming a joint or joints.

(transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.

(Architecture) To give visible or concrete expression to (the composition of structural elements)

To share

To speak clearly and distinctly.

To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.

To utter a speech sound.

To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.

(Biology) To form a joint; be jointed

To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).

Clear; effective.

(intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.

Speaking in a clear and effective manner.

(intransitive) To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.

Consisting of segments united by joints.

To share in common; to participate in.

Distinctly marked off.

To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.

(obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.

To administer the communion to.

(zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

(transitive) To make clear or effective.

To give alms, sympathy, or aid.

(ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.

To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.

(transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.

To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

(transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.

Transmit information ;

To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.

Transmit thoughts or feelings;

To form a joint or connect by joints

Transfer to another;

(obsolete) To treat or make terms.

Join or connect;

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas;

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

Administer communion; in church

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.

Receive Communion, in the Catholic church

An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

To treat or make terms.

To join or be connected by articulation.

To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.

To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify.

To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.

To express distinctly; to give utterance to.

Provide with a joint;

Put into words or an expression;

Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;

Express or state clearly

Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language;

Consisting of segments held together by joints