Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
- v. To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
- v. To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
- v. To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; govern by or subject to certain rules or restrictions; direct.
- To put or keep in good order: as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances; to regulate the digestion.
- Specifically, in musical instruments with a keyboard, so to adjust the action that it shall be noiseless, prompt, and sensitive to the touch. Synonyms Rule, Manage, etc. See
govern .
Wiktionary
- v. To dictate policy.
- v. To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
- v. To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
- v. To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
- v. To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
- v. To put in good order.
- v. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition
WordNet 3.0
- v. shape or influence; give direction to
- v. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
- v. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- v. check the emission of (sound)
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Late Latin rēgulāre, rēgulāt-, from Latin rēgula, rod, rule; see reg- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“One of the more credible arguments is that while Congress may regulate commerce between the states (the term regulate meaning something entirely different to the Founders, chiefly that individual state commercial law should have some uniformity), how can Congress regulate non-activity or no commerce?”
“But, half the blame can be laid to the ambiguity of the term regulate, and also to the clause general welfare”
“It is irrelevant, he states, that politicians, and even the Supreme Court, believe that the term regulate means control of the movement or existence of commodities and services via taxation, quotas, or any other species of interventionism across state lines or within them.”
“Yes America country that just went through one of the worst finical crises in history due to a failure to regulate is overregulated.”
“The field of affective neuroscience has grown and changed so rapidly that for an outsider to the field it can be difficult to keep track of scholars 'best understanding of which parts of the brain regulate what.”
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“A decision not to regulate is consistent with leaving matters to the states.”
“No the Republicans are so smart they think letting the government do nothing to regulate is the answer to everything.”
“It is true that a variant of the word regulate is in fact peppered throughout the text of the House Democrats 'health care reform bill.”
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“(In Nevada, outside of Vegas and Reno, the decision to regulate is made at the county level.)”
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Horological Vocabulary
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