different between regulate vs regularise
regulate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regulatus, past participle of regul? (“to direct, rule, regulate”), from regula (“rule”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????j?le?t/
- Hyphenation: re?gu?late
Verb
regulate (third-person singular simple present regulates, present participle regulating, simple past and past participle regulated)
- To dictate policy.
- To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
- 1834, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent
- The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
- 1834, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent
- To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
- To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
- to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
- to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- To put or maintain in order.
- to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
- to regulate one's eating habits
Derived terms
- deregulate
- downregulate
- upregulate
Related terms
- rule
- ruler
- regular
- regulation
- regulator
Translations
Further reading
- regulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- regulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- legature
Latin
Verb
r?gul?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of r?gul?
regulate From the web:
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regularise
English
Etymology
regular +? -ise
Verb
regularise (third-person singular simple present regularises, present participle regularising, simple past and past participle regularised)
- Alternative spelling of regularize
regularise From the web:
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- what is regularised af
- what does regularised
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