different between statute vs regulate

English

Etymology

From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statu? (“I set up, establish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæt?u?t/

Noun

statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
2. (law, common law) Legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law by those it governs.

Derived terms

• statutory
• statutorily
• statutory rape

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tautest

Latin

Participle

stat?te

1. vocative masculine singular of stat?tus

References

• statute in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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)

1. To dictate policy.
2. 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.

3. To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
4. 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.

5. 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

1. second-person plural present active imperative of r?gul?