FORMULATE

explicate, formulate, develop

(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; “Could you develop the ideas in your thesis”

invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge

(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; “excogitate a way to measure the speed of light”

formulate

(verb) prepare according to a formula

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

formulate (third-person singular simple present formulates, present participle formulating, simple past and past participle formulated)

(transitive) To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

Source: Wiktionary


For"mu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Formulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Formulating.]

Definition: To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. G. P. Marsh.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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