FORMULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does formulate mean?
• FORMULATE (verb)
The verb FORMULATE has 4 senses:
1. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
2. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
3. put into words or an expression
4. prepare according to a formula
Familiarity information: FORMULATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FORMULATE (verb)
Meaning:
Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
formulate; explicate; develop
Context example:
Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Hypernyms (to "formulate" is one way to...):
conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "formulate"):
mature (develop and work out fully in one's mind)
redevelop; reformulate (formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
devise; excogitate; invent; contrive; formulate; forge
Context example:
excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Hypernyms (to "formulate" is one way to...):
create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he formulate his major works over a short period of time?
Meaning:
Put into words or an expression
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
word; phrase; give voice; articulate; formulate
Context example:
He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees
Hypernyms (to "formulate" is one way to...):
evince; express; show (give expression to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "formulate"):
ask (direct or put; seek an answer to)
lexicalise; lexicalize (make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language)
dogmatise; dogmatize (state as a dogma)
formularise; formularize (express as a formula)
cast; couch; frame; put; redact (formulate in a particular style or language)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Prepare according to a formula
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "formulate" is one way to...):
create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
