Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To express as or reduce to a formula; formulate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to a formula; formulate; express in precise or systematic form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US To
express as aformula , toformulate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb express as a formula
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Examples
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Ly, who holds a master's degree in hospitality management from Australia's Griffith University and doesn't involve himself in the kitchens, was the first to formularize a recipe that can be transferred to franchisees.
Starting From Scratch Lan Anh Nguyen 2011
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Ly, who holds a master's degree in hospitality management from Australia's Griffith University and doesn't involve himself in the kitchens, was the first to formularize a recipe that can be transferred to franchisees.
Home Cooking: Vietnam's Pho24 Lan Anh Nguyen 2011
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When believers have to formularize in set words their hazy notions of the feelings and conditions of souls in bliss, they make but a lame business of it; and nothing that the dear woman could propound, keeping on the side of orthodox spirituality, carried comfort or conviction to Leam.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith."
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But though we cannot formularize reasons, we have instincts; and sometimes instinct sees more clearly than reason.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith."
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846
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Banks should also formularize a right structure and regulators would suggest changes if they fail to provide a proper and convincing structure on their own.
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"To formularize it would be to kill it … or something like that."
Comic Book Resources 2009
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