Word Meanings - REGULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their

Additional info about word: REGULATE

1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft. 2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances. 3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc. To regulate a watch or clock, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time. Syn. -- To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order; rule; govern.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REGULATE)

• Control
• curb
• moderate
• repress
• guide
• regulate
• restrain
• coerce
• manage
• administer
• govern
• Guide
• Lead
• direct
• conduct
• pilot
• superintend
• influence
• train
• Manage
• Handle
• manipulate
• control
• mould
• contrive
• husband
• wield
• Moderate
• soften
• allay
• temper
• Ordain
• Set
• appoint
• decree
• institute
• prescribe
• arrange
• dictate
• establish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REGULATE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to REGULATE)

• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• PILOTAGE
  1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. Sir W. Scott.
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
• BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
  The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR