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Potion vs Formula - What's the difference?

potion | formula |

As nouns the difference between potion and formula

is that potion is a small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical while formula is any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

As a verb potion

is to drug.

potion

English

(wikipedia potion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
  • He hoped to win the princess’s heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To drug.
  • (Speed)

    Anagrams

    *

    formula

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia formula)
  • (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
  • x = \frac {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a} is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 .
  • (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
  • H2O is the formula for water (Dihydrogen monoxide)
  • a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
  • The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
  • A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
  • The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
  • Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
  • (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
  • Synonyms

    * (in mathematics) mathematical formula * (in chemistry) chemical formula

    Hyponyms

    * (logic) sentence

    Derived terms

    * (l) * formulate * formulation * Formula One * formula racing * multiformula