Synonyms for formula
ˈfɔr myə lə; -ˌlifor·mu·la

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1. formula

   Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

   Synonyms:
   canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, jurisprudence, law, legislation, mandate, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

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1. formula, expressionnoun

   a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

   Synonyms:
   facial expression, reflection, construction, recipe, formulation, aspect, rule, chemical formula, saying, look, verbal expression, expression, manifestation, verbalism, grammatical construction, pattern, face, convention, locution, normal, reflexion

2. recipe, formulanoun

   directions for making something

   Synonyms:
   convention, rule, expression, pattern, chemical formula, recipe, normal

3. formulanoun

   a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

   Synonyms:
   normal, pattern, recipe, convention, chemical formula, rule, expression

4. formula, chemical formulanoun

   a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

   Synonyms:
   convention, rule, expression, pattern, chemical formula, recipe, normal

5. convention, normal, pattern, rule, formulanoun

   something regarded as a normative example

   "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"

   Synonyms:
   form, expression, ruler, practice, regulation, radiation diagram, dominion, principle, rule, figure, approach pattern, chemical formula, linguistic rule, shape, radiation pattern, prescript, blueprint, traffic pattern, conventionalism, conventionality, recipe, pattern, convening, convention, design, normal

6. formulanoun

   a liquid food for infants

   Synonyms:
   normal, pattern, recipe, convention, chemical formula, rule, expression

7. rule, formulanoun

   (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

   "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"

   Synonyms:
   rule, convention, regulation, normal, principle, chemical formula, ruler, prescript, pattern, expression, linguistic rule, recipe, dominion

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1. formulanoun

   Synonyms:
   form, rule, model, formulary

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1. formulanoun

   Synonyms:
   ritual, ceremony, ceremonial, rule, principle, recipe

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1. List of paraphrases for "formula":

   formulas, formulae, form, formulates, recipe, wording, formulation, format, equation, phrase, formulate, formal, approach

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1. Herbert Bayard Swope:

   I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time.

2. Piers Hunnisett:

   It's taken a lot of work because the motorsport world is very small and, like in India, advertising budgets are very small compared to European ones, when you talk Formula One money in those countries it’s huge money :' How many hospitals can we build ?' But eventually they see the global benefits of Formula One and Formula One really puts the country on the map.

3. Lao Tzu:

   While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

4. Herbert B. Swope:

   I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.

5. Avital Norman Nathman:

   While I am 100% pro-breast-feeding and would love for every mom to at least attempt it if it works for them, you can't lock up formula and have people have to request it in a way that's shaming because that's not helping breast-feeding. That's not going to help any mother breast-feed, to make them worry too much if I can't breast-feed, am I going to be shamed into my choice? i think formula should be available and not in a way that you have to sign a waiver that you're aware you're giving your child formula if you need to.