Dictionary Definition
formulate
Verb
1 elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses;
"Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" [syn: explicate, develop]
2 come up with (an idea, plan, explanation,
theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, forge]
3 put into words or an expression; "He formulated
his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice,
word, phrase, articulate]
4 prepare according to a formula
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
Translations
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put
in a clear and definite form of statement or expression
- Dutch: verwoorden, formuleren
- Finnish: muotoilla, formuloida
- French: formuler
- Italian: formulare
Italian
Verb
formulate- Form of Second-person plural present tense, formulare
- Form of Second-person plural imperative, formulare#Italian|formulare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
articulate, assemble, author, authorize, block out, breathe, build, cast, chime, chorus, coauthor, codify, collaborate, come out with,
communicate,
compose, compound, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, convey, cook up, couch, couch in terms, create, dash off, declare lawful,
decree, define, deliver, denote, design, develop, devise, disclose, draw up, dream up,
editorialize,
elaborate, embody in
words, emit, enact, enunciate, erect, establish, evolve, express, extrude, fabricate, fashion, fling off, forge, form, formularize, frame, free-lance, fudge together,
get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give, give expression, give
expression to, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give
voice, give words to, hatch up, impart, improvise, indite, invent, knock off, knock out,
legalize, legislate, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, let out, lip, make, make a regulation, make
legal, make up, manufacture, map out,
mature, mold, novelize, ordain, originate, out with, pamphleteer, paragraph, particularize, patch
together, phonate,
phrase, piece together,
pour forth, prefabricate, prepare, prescribe, present, produce, pronounce, put, put forth, put in force, put in
words, put together, put up, raise, rear, regulate, rhetorize, run up, sanction, say, scenarize, set forth, set out,
set up, shape, sound, specify, state, style, systematize, tell, think of, think up, throw
off, throw on paper, utter, validate, vamp up, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, whomp up, word, work out, write