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Shaping vs Formulate - What's the difference?

shaping | formulate |

As verbs the difference between shaping and formulate

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

As a noun shaping

is the action of the verb to shape .

shaping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of the verb to shape .
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
  • (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

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    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.
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    • 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. [...]

    Related terms

    * formula * formulation * formulable * reformulate

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