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Articled
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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noun
1.
a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
2.
an individual object, member, or portion of a class; an item or particular: an article of food; articles of clothing.
3.
something of indefinite character or description: What is that article?
4.
an item for sale; commodity.
5.
EXPANDGrammar. any member of a small class of words, or, as in Swedish or Romanian, affixes, found in certain languages, as English, French, and Arabic, that are linked to nouns and that typically have a grammatical function identifying the noun as a noun rather than describing it. In English the definite article is the, the indefinite article is a or an, and their force is generally to impart specificity to the noun or to single out the referent from the class named by the noun.
6.
a clause, item, point, or particular in a contract, treaty, or other formal agreement; a condition or stipulation in a contract or bargain: The lawyers disagreed on the article covering plagiarism suits.
7.
a separate clause or provision of a statute.
8.
Slang. a person.
9.
Archaic. a subject or matter of interest, thought, business, etc.
10.
COLLAPSEObsolete. a specific or critical point of time; juncture or moment: the article of death.
verb (used with object)
11.
to set forth in articles; charge or accuse specifically: They articled his alleged crimes.
12.
to bind by articles of covenant or stipulation: to article an apprentice.
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Word Origin & History
article
early 13c., "separate parts of anything written" (e.g. the statements in the Apostles' Creed, the clauses of a statute or contract), from O.Fr. article (13c.), from L. articulus, dim. of artus "a joint" (from PIE *ar-tu-, from *ar- "to fit together;" (see arm (1)). Meaning extended
EXPANDto "a small division," then generalized to "item, thing." Older sense preserved in Articles of War "military regulations" (1716) and Articles of Confederation (U.S. history). Meaning "literary composition in a journal, etc." (independent, but part of a larger work) first recorded 1712. Meaning "piece of property" (clothing, etc.) first attested 1796, originally in rogue's cant.
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