Formulate vs Innovate - What's the difference?
formulate | innovate |
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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(obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
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To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
To introduce (something) as new.
In transitive terms the difference between formulate and innovate
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 innovate is to introduce (something) as new.formulate
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(Webster 1913)Verb
- 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. [...]
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Verb
(en-verb)- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
- to innovate a word or an act