Articulation vs. Diction — What's the Difference?

The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation

Diction (Latin: dictionem (nom. dictio), "a saying, expression, word"), in its original meaning, is a writer's or speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a poem or story.

The act or manner of producing a speech sound.

Choice and use of words in speech or writing.

A speech sound, especially a consonant.

Degree of clarity and distinctness of pronunciation in speech or singing; enunciation.

A jointing together or being jointed together.

Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.

The method or manner of jointing.

The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression.

A fixed or movable joint between bones.

(theatre) Enunciation, pronunciation.

A movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods.

Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.

A joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem.

The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

A node or a space on a stem between two nodes.

The manner in which something is expressed in words;

The conversion of a student's credits at one school to credits at another school by comparing the curricula.

A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.

(countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.

(uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.

(linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.

The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).

(accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.

(education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.

The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

The state of being jointed; connection of parts.

The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.

A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.

The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

Expressing in coherent verbal form;

(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if the articulation allows motion)

The act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible