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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
formulate
v 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
WordNet (r) 2.0
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "formulate":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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