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# formulate

«formulate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to think it out carefully and put it together in detail** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (formulate, formulates, formulated, formulating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To formulate a plan, idea or rule is to think it out carefully and put it together in detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#m1)

2) To formulate something is to express it clearly in words or symbols. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#m2)

3) To formulate a medicine, food or product is to make it from a particular mixture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, pupils formulate a question and a hypothesis (a prediction) before an experiment. In maths, you formulate an equation from a word problem. In everyday life and business, companies formulate plans or new products like shampoos. Phrases: «formulate a plan», «formulate a hypothesis», «formulate a question».

### examples

- Formulate a hypothesis before you start the experiment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x1)
- The team formulated a plan to raise money for the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x2)
- She took a moment to formulate her answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x3)
- Can you formulate the word problem as an equation? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x4)
- The cream is formulated for sensitive skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x5)
- Scientists formulate rules from many observations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x6)
- Her heart gave a great throb, and she prepared to speak at once and in great volume before he could formulate any question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/#x7)

### note

Formal. Noun: formulation. Related: formula (plural: formulae or formulas), a rule written in symbols such as A = l × w.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «formulate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/formulate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.