different between rule vs formula

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?u?l/, [?u??]
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, itself an early semi-learned borrowing from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”); see regent.

Noun

rule (countable and uncountable, plural rules)

1. A regulation, law, guideline.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Of The Obligations of Christians to a Holy Life

     We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
2. A regulating principle.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well, Act I, scene I

     There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.

3. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. A normal condition or state of affairs.

   My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

5. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
6. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

7. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

   a rule for extracting the cube root

8. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Sermons

     As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.

9. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
10. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

Derived terms

Related terms

• regulate
• regent
• regular

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rulen, borrowed from Old French riuler, from Latin regul?re (“to regulate, rule”), from regula (“a rule”); see regular and regulate.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
2. (slang, intransitive) To excel.

3. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
4. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation

     That's a ruled case with the school-men.

5. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).

Synonyms

• (to excel): rock (also slang)

Antonyms

• (to excel): suck (vulgar slang)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Related to revel.

Noun

rule

1. (obsolete) Revelry.

Verb

rule (third-person singular simple present rules, present participle ruling, simple past and past participle ruled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To revel.

Further reading

• rule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rule in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, lure

Spanish

Verb

rule

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rular.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rular.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rular.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rular.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.mj?.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.mj?.l?/

Noun

formula (plural formulae or formulas)

1. (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.

   Synonym: mathematical formula

   ${\displaystyle x={\frac {-b\pm {\sqrt {b^{2}-4ac}}}{2a}}}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0.

   Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula

2. (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.

   Synonym: chemical formula

3. A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
4. A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.

5. A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
6. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
7. (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.

   Hyponym: sentence

Derived terms

• formula architecture
• formula investing
• formula investor
• formula plan
• formulate
• formulation
• Formula One
• formula racing
• multiformula

Related terms

Descendants

• Irish: foirmle
• Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

Translations

Further reading

• formula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• formula in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /fu??mu.l?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fur?mu.l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fo??mu.la/

Verb

formula

1. third-person singular present indicative form of formular
2. second-person singular imperative form of formular

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).

Noun

formula

1. formula

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Finnish

Noun

formula

1. (motor racing) a Formula One racing car

Declension

French

Verb

formula

1. third-person singular past historic of formuler

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?formul?]
• Hyphenation: for?mu?la
• Rhymes: -l?

Noun

formula (plural formulák)

1. formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
2. formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
3. (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)

Declension

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin f?rmula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?r?mula]
• Hyphenation: for?mu?la

Noun

formula (first-person possessive formulaku, second-person possessive formulamu, third-person possessive formulanya)

1. formula

   Synonym: rumus

Derived terms

Further reading

• “formula” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin formula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r.mu.la/

Noun

formula f (plural formule)

1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula

Derived terms

• formulare
• Formula Uno

Related terms

• forma

Etymology 2

Verb

formula

1. third-person singular present indicative of formulare
2. second-person singular imperative of formulare

Anagrams

• fulmaro

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive, from f?rma +? -ulus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo?r.mu.la/, [?fo?rm???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?for.mu.la/, [?f?rmul?]

Noun

f?rmula f (genitive f?rmulae); first declension

1. shape, outline
2. (fine) form; beauty
3. pattern, mould; paradigm
4. form, rule, method, formula
5. lawsuit, action

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• formula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• formula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• formula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• formula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin f?rmula.

Noun

formula f (plural formulas)

1. (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
2. (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
3. form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)

Portuguese

Verb

formula

1. third-person singular present indicative of formular
2. second-person singular imperative of formular

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French formuler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [for.mu?la]

Verb

a formula (third-person singular present formuleaz?, past participle formulat) 1st conj.

1. to formulate

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [for?mu.la]

Noun

formula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of formul?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula.

Noun

f?rmula f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (mathematics, chemistry, logic) formula
2. rule

Declension

Spanish

Verb

formula

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of formular.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of formular.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of formular.