Formulate vs Phrasing - What's the difference?
formulate | phrasing |
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
As verbs the difference between formulate and phrasing
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 phrasing is .As a noun phrasing is
the way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.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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(en noun)- 1870' ''But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of '''phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.'' Mark Twain, ''Life on the Mississippi ,
Chapter 46.
- 1891' ''The grand difficulty in the opening andante movement of Casta Diva lies in its broad, sustained '''phrasing , in the long, generous undulation of its rhythm, which with most singers drags or gets broken out of symmetry. Jenny Lind conceived and did it truly.'' Joel Benton, ''Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum ,
Chapter 17.