article

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item.
• noun A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.
• noun A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine.
• noun The part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application.
• noun Any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the.
• noun A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.
• transitive verb To bind by articles set forth in a contract, such as one of apprenticeship.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To state in detail; particularize; specify.
• To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
• To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation: as, to article an apprentice.
• To agree by articles; stipulate.
• noun That part of the proceedings which corresponds to the charge in our English bill in chancery to set aside a deed. The answer is called articles approbatory.
• noun A joint connecting two parts of the body.
• noun One of the parts thus connected; a jointed segment or part.
• noun In botany, the name formerly given to that part of a stalk or stem which is between two joints.
• noun A separate member or portion of anything. In particular— A clause, item, point, or particular in a contract, treaty, or other formal agreement; a condition or stipulation in a contract or bargain: as, articles of association; articles of apprenticeship.
• noun A distinct proposition in a connected series; one of the particulars constituting a system: as, the Thirty-nine Articles; the articles of religion.
• noun A separate clause or provision of a statute: as, the act of the six articles (see below).
• noun A distinct charge or count: as, articles of impeachment.
• noun A distinct item in an account or a list.
• noun One of a series of regulations: as, the articles of war.
• noun A literary composition on a specific topic, forming an independent portion of a book or literary publication, especially of a newspaper, magazine, review, or other periodical: as, an article on war, or on earthquakes and their causes.
• noun A material thing as part of a class, or, absolutely, a particular substance or commodity: as, an article of merchandise; an article of clothing; salt is a necessary article.
• noun A particular immaterial thing; a matter.
• noun A concern; a piece of business; a subject. A point or nick of time joining two successive periods; a juncture; a moment; the moment or very moment.
• noun The number 10, or any number ending in a cipher.
• noun In grammar, a word used attributively to limit the application of a noun to one individual or set of individuals, and also to indicate whether the noun used signifies indefinitely one or any one of the class which it names, or definitely a specific object of thought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb rare To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
• transitive verb To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
• transitive verb To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
• transitive verb To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation.
• noun A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement.
• noun A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
• noun obsolete Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
• noun A distinct part.
• noun A particular one of various things
• noun Obs. or Archaic Precise point of time; moment.
• noun (Gram.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
• noun (Zoöl.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
• noun the compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789.
• noun an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case.
• noun rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army.
• noun at the moment of death; in the dying struggle.
• noun (Scot. Hist.) a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws.
• noun statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
• noun A story, report, or opinion piece in a newspaper, magazine, journal, internet etc.
• noun A member of a group or class
• noun An object.