by Chiparoo October 9, 2011

When someone interrupts you while you are talking but what they have to say has nothing to do with what you were talking about. Someone who talks out of turn.
ME: My boss fired me the other day because I kept interrupting him when he was trying to tell me what to do.
YOU: Sounds like you suffer from Premature Articulation.
YOU: Sounds like you suffer from Premature Articulation.
by GD Daddy for Trixy September 23, 2019

The process of selecting the words which will best express one's thoughts and/or emotions, ordering and reordering those words in one's head, writing them down.
Unable to, as usual, easily put an idea she 'felt' into words, Serenata applied 'articulation mechanics' by selecting the words that best expressed her idea, ordering and reordering them in her head, and writing them in a notebook. She called that mental and physical process articulation mechanics.
by but for December 25, 2017

Premature Articulation is the act of speaking/bragging too soon before all the facts are in, the game is over, etc.
Dude, I totally jinxed the Cardinals by blathering all over Facebook about how they were kicking ass, then they lost the game. For the first time since high school, I experienced premature articulation!
by RazorSharp September 10, 2013

Selecting words to express an idea in a positive way conscious that doing so will engender positive consequences.
The chairman of the board asked the speech writer to write the announcement using positive articulation instead of the negative articulation she,—for unexplained reasons—had used. The managers were surprised to see that she worded the announcement as she did, wondered if he was a saboteur, got her fired on-the-spot, and had a different writer write the speech.
by but for October 25, 2017

Sometimes, the composer has verbally articulated or also written the thought he or she articulates musically by composing a melody. Sometimes, the composer just feels an emotion which he or she is or is unable to articulate verbally, but composes a riff to express it, that is 'musical articulation.'
by but for December 19, 2017

The most complete, concise, effective, and efficient way to express a feeling, thought, idea, desire, or anything else.
Sooner than I expected, the day came when after writing daily and weeks away from completing my master's degree in creative writing, I achieved perfect articulation—the ability to perfectly word what I was feeling and/or thinking.
by but for October 2, 2018
