Formulate and Regulate

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.

verb

• Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.
  • usage: "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
  • synonyms: modulate
• Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
  • usage: "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
  • synonyms: regularize, regularise, order, govern
• Shape or influence; give direction to.
  • usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
  • synonyms: determine, shape, mold, influence
• Check the emission of (sound. ).
  • synonyms: baffle

• (v.t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
• (v.t.) To adjust or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
• (v.t.) To adjust by rule, method or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.