Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To state as or reduce to a formula.
- transitive verb To express in systematic terms or concepts.
- transitive verb To devise or invent.
- transitive verb To prepare according to a specified formula.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to or express in a formula; state in a precise and comprehensive or systematic form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- verb put into words or an expression
- verb elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- verb prepare according to a formula
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Boing Boing 2010
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But you kind of formulate your own characters from those part. sic And it just kind of, you know?
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As I tried to formulate my own position on Vietnam, I had a two-track system.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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As I tried to formulate my own position on Vietnam, I had a two-track system.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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As I tried to formulate my own position on Vietnam, I had a two-track system.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Her most conscious desire was for silk underwear; at least it was the only one she seemed able to formulate!
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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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.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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I believed that there was such a question and that it was up to us, students of the poem, to formulate it.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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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.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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I believed that there was such a question and that it was up to us, students of the poem, to formulate it.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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