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Definition: Reformulate |
ReformulateVerb1. Formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reformulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
Synonym: ReformulateSynonym: redevelop (v). (additional references) |
| "Reformulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Reformulate" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reformulate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reformulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再形成. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | omformulere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | herformulering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muotoilla uudelleen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reformuler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reformulieren, umformulieren (restate, reword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανασύνταξη (redeployment, regrouping, reorganization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재공식"하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eformulateray reformular. (various references) reformulisati. (various references) reformular (rethink). (various references) reformulera. (various references) формулювати вдруге. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reformulate": reformulated, reformulates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reformulate": preformulate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reformulate": preformulated, preformulates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reformulate" (pronounced rēfô"rmyulā't) |
| 9 | -f ô" r m y u l ā' t | formulate. |
| 6 | -m y u l ā' t | accumulate, emulate, simulate, stimulate. |
| 5 | -y u l ā' t | articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, copulate, depopulate, inoculate, manipulate, miscalculate, overregulate, populate, recalculate, regulate, reregulate, speculate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | adulate, annihilate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-m-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: formulate, reformate. | |
-3 letters: emulator, falterer, flameout, formulae, fumarole, murrelet, reformat, ureteral. | |
-4 letters: alerter, alterer, aureole, emulate, erratum, feature, femoral, fermate, ferrate, ferrule, ferulae, floater, flouter, forearm, formate, formula, maturer, morulae, morular, moulter, outfeel, realter, realtor, reflate, refloat, reframe, refutal, refuter, relater, relator, remoter, reroute, tearful, torulae, tumoral. | |
-5 letters: afreet, amulet, areole, armful, armlet, armour, armure, artful, earful, elater, eluate, emoter, falter, farmer, fearer, feater, female, femora, ferrel, ferret, ferrum, ferula, ferule, flamer, florae, floret, fluter, foamer, foetal, folate, formal, format, formee, former, fouler, framer, frater, fueler, fulmar, furler, furore, lefter, loafer, lofter, mature, mauler, melter, merlot, meteor, molter, morale, mortal, mortar, morula, muleta, oleate, omelet, rafter, realer, reamer, refelt, reflet, reform, refuel, refute, relate, relume, remate, remelt, remora, remote, reteam, retear, retore, retral, roamer, rolfer, router, tearer, telfer, telome, termer, termor, terrae, torula, tourer, tramel, tremor, ureter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-m-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: preformulate, reformulated, reformulates. | |
+2 letters: preformulated, preformulates. | |
+5 letters: supercomfortable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 66 6F 72 6D 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ..-. --- .-. -- ..- .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e f o r m u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0066 006F 0072 006D 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271728184798778678671 |
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