Prescribe vs Formulate - What's the difference?
prescribe | formulate |
To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
To specify as a required procedure or ritual; to lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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As verbs the difference between prescribe and formulate
is that prescribe is to order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient while formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.prescribe
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Usage notes
* The pronunciation with the stressed first syllable is normally used only when added distinction from (proscribe) is required.Verb
(prescrib)- The doctor prescribed aspirin.
- Prescribe not us our duties.
- Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.
See also
* proscribe English transitive verbs ----formulate
English
(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. [...]
