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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb formulate has 4 senses

• formulate(v = verb.communication) develop, explicate - elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
is one way to conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize
Derived form noun formulation₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• formulate(v = verb.creation) contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Derived forms noun formula₃, noun formulation₂
Sample sentence:
Did he formulate his major works over a short period of time?

• formulate(v = verb.communication) articulate, give voice, phrase, word - put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
is one way to evince, express, show
Derived forms noun formulation₂, noun formulation₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• formulate(v = verb.creation) Array - prepare according to a formula; Array
is one way to create from raw material, create from raw stuff
Derived forms noun formula₇, noun formula₂, noun formulation₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

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

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formulate

Writing

VB write, pen, copy, engross, write out, write out fair, transcribe, scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch, interline, stain paper, write down, sign, enface, compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate, dictate, inscribe, throw on paper, dash off, manifold, take up the pen, take pen in hand, shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

Legality

VB legalize, enact, ordain, decree, pass a law, enact a regulation, legislate, codify, formulate, regulate.

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