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Setup vs Formulate - What's the difference?

setup | formulate |

As verbs the difference between setup and formulate

is that setup 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 setup

is equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.

setup

English

Alternative forms

* set-up

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia setup)
  • Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
  • The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
  • The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
  • The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
  • An act to frame someone; an effort or arrangement aimed at placing the blame on somebody.
  • Trust me, that was a setup !
  • (computing) An installer.
  • After inserting the disk, run the setup .
  • (operations) The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
  • A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.

    Synonyms

    * (equipment) apparatus * (the fashion in which something is organized or arranged) configuration

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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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. [...]