Explicate and Formulate

verb

• Make plain and comprehensible.
  • usage: "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
  • synonyms: explain
• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: formulate, develop

• (v.t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
• (a.) Evolved; unfolded.
• (v.t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

verb

• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: explicate, develop
• Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
  • usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
  • synonyms: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, forge
• Put into words or an expression.
  • usage: "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
  • synonyms: give voice, word, phrase, articulate
• Prepare according to a formula. .

(v.t.) To reduce to or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.