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article Definition

ar·ti·cle (ärt′i kəl)

noun

  1. one of the sections or items of a written document, as of a constitution, treaty, contract, etc.
  2. the parts of a formal declaration, or of a body of rules, beliefs, etc., considered as a whole
  3. a complete piece of writing, as a report or essay, that is part of a newspaper, magazine, or book
  4. a thing of a certain kind; separate item an article of luggage
  5. a thing for sale; commodity
  6. Gram. any one of the words a, an, or the (and their equivalents in other languages), used as adjectives: a and an are the indefinite articles and the is the definite article

Etymology: ME & OFr < L articulus, dim. of artus, a joint: see art

transitive verb -·cled, -·cling

  1. Archaic to set forth (charges) in an indictment
  2. to bind by the articles of an agreement or contract an articled apprentice

article Synonyms

article

n.

  1. An individual thing

    item, object, substance, commodity; see thing 1.

  2. Nonfiction appearing in a periodical

    essay, editorial, commentary, news item, column, feature, piece, report, study; see also exposition 2.

  3. A division of a piece of writing

    portion, section, provision, item, clause, stipulation, chapter.

article Law Definition

n

  1. A separate and distinct part of a written instrument, such as a contract, statute, or constitution, that is often divided into sections.
  2. A written instrument, containing a series of rules and stipulations that are each designated as an article.
article Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • incorporation: Officers are not required to be listed in the Articles of Incorporation.
  • association: PSNC has agreed the terms of its articles of association ahead of the organization becoming a limited company.

Converse of object

  • publish: Below is a copy of a message which I sent to The Lancet in response to the published articles.
  • read: Read an article about how we opened up the archive.
  • write: Each day I wrote an article for the newsletter; doing research in the mornings then writing the article toward the afternoon.
  • entitle: Results I recently published my first article entitled " A finite element study of the mechanics of sports mouthguards " .
  • submit: The award is given annually to members under 35 years of age for the best general article submitted to the Journal.
  • contribute: John has contributed numerous articles on stress-related issues to Stress News.

Preposition: in

  • journal: She has published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Adjective modifier

  • full: Read full article » Does the Internet really matter?
  • related: RELATED ARTICLES Should You Be Linking for Traffic or Rankings?
  • interesting: An interesting article or two for the Newsletter would be very helpful to us all.
  • Recent: Recent articles: Review of Cairngorms a guidebook as complete and well-researched as this one is so welcome.. .
  • recent: The site includes links to recent news articles on abrupt climate change.
  • previous: Everything I've said here can be understood in terms of the polarity of precision and meaning discussed in the previous article.

Noun used with modifier

  • journal: You can use a database to research a subject - for example, to find relevant journal articles.
  • full-text: The Web site includes free access to full-text articles from Volume 1 ( 4 ) Winter 2001.
  • newspaper: I do not use skimming as a strategy for reading newspaper articles, or novels for that matter.
  • news: The site includes links to recent news articles on abrupt climate change.
  • magazine: I will try to locate and to gain permission to reproduce original magazine articles and road tests of TVR wedges in the motoring press.
article Quotes

Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Alcohol is a very necessaryarticle† It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

—Shaw, George Bernard

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

—Honegger, Arthur

The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

—Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret

For a slashing article, sir, there's nobody like the Capting.

—Thackeray,William Makepeace

Far from being half a woman, a widow is the only complete example of her sex.Infact, thefinished article.

—Russell,John

He is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.Dirty, ugly, disagreeableto all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a Heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him: native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.

—Meyer, Karl Ernest