'Formulate' definitions:
Definition of 'formulate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" [syn: explicate, formulate, develop]
verb
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
verb
Put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate]
verb
Prepare according to a formula
Definition of 'Formulate'
From: GCIDE
- Formulate \For"mu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Formulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Formulating.] To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. --G. P. Marsh. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'formulate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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