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Formulate vs Designed - What's the difference?

formulate | designed |

As verbs the difference between formulate and designed

is that formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression while designed is past tense of design.

As an adjective designed is

created according to a design.

formulate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
  • *
  • Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]

    designed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (design)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • created according to a design
  • Derived terms

    * designedly