Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To state as or reduce to a formula.
- v. To express in systematic terms or concepts.
- v. To devise or invent: formulate strategy.
- v. To prepare according to a specified formula.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To reduce to or express in a formula; state in a precise and comprehensive or systematic form.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
WordNet 3.0
- v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- v. put into words or an expression
- v. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- v. prepare according to a formula
Etymologies
- From formula + -ate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Some are just amazing bits of work, including this one that looks like a standard butterfly on first glance, but is actually the four finch species that helped Charles Darwin formulate his early ideas on evolution.”
“But you kind of formulate your own characters from those part. sic And it just kind of, you know?”
“Her most conscious desire was for silk underwear; at least it was the only one she seemed able to formulate!”
“As I tried to formulate my own position on Vietnam, I had a two-track system.”
“I believed that there was such a question and that it was up to us, students of the poem, to formulate it.”
“So, integrating the wisdom of the lessons from the graduate of the war college Admiral Kinney with the words of the peacekeeper Gandhi, I took the best from both master strategists and began to formulate a strategy.”
“But there is a positive side of competition that drives philanthropy forward; you can still formulate new ideas and compete.”
“It is unfortunate that the ideals of politically conservative individuals in this country are drowned out by self-ordained representatives like Sarah Palin who are either too unintelligent formulate a rational counter-argument, or simply prefer scare tactics rather than logic to present "our" side of the argument.”
“It is just a bunch of angry, misinformed white guys who have learned to scream opposing views down because they can't formulate a coherent, fact-based argument for themselves.”
“There is no way anyone can win in America today with pompouys pundits and editorial writers who think they should be the President, socalled journalists who think their job is to be stars and formulate opinion through anonymous sources, half truths and a lack of investigative reporting and elected officials who have made getting reelected their sole purpose in life. bob in LA”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘formulate’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EU Buzz - EN words misused by the EU
A list based on http://ec.europa.eu/translation/english/guidelines/document...
actor, actual, adequate, agenda, agent, aids, allow, anglo-saxon, articulate, assist, axis, attestation and 77 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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Creating
Vocabulary for developing objectives and test items.
Blooms Taxonomy Level: Synthesiscombine, compile, compose, constitute, construct, create, derive, design, develop, devise, document, formulate and 15 more...
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Word list
paraphrase, formulate, articulate, coherent, coercive, holistic, preclude, amenable, even-handed, docile, astute, empathy and 8 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL F
fabricate, fabulist, facade, facet, facetious, facilitate, facsimile, factious, fain, fallacy, fallow, fanatical and 69 more...
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Doug and Paul's Everyday Words
Words a friend and I actually use in common parlance, much to the astonishment of all, and sometimes ourselves.
wherewithal, whereas, ukase, turgid, transmogrify, thereby, summarily, regale, proclivities, prescient, perusal, permutations and 21 more...
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