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regulate English

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What does regulate mean?
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regulate Verb

— If you regulate something, you control it by making laws and rules. The industry has fought the state's attempts to regulate it. The Coast Guard has direct authority to regulate U.S. sailors and port workers. The government is considering a law that would regulate the prices of drugs. The state maintains the power to regulate all schools. — If mathx/math regulates mathy/math, mathx/math causes mathy/math to function in a particular way, often at a higher or lower level. You turn this to regulate the water flow. This part of the brain regulates activities such as decision-making and memory.

regulate

— verb (= modulate) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of regulate the temperature modulate the pitch — verb bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations We cannot regulate the way people dress This town likes to regulate — verb (= determine, shape, mold, influence) shape or influence; give direction to experience often determines ability mold public opinion — verb (= baffle) check the emission of (sound)

Synonyms regulate synonyms

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regulate English » English

control adjust govern arrange order set manage direct supervise restrict regularize modulate determine settle put in order master baffle adapt rule oversee limit lead lay down a rule guide conduct administer tune standardize standardise shape repair regularise put right organize organise operate normalize normalise mold institute a standard influence fit discipline constrict boss weak tune up trim train tone down

Topics regulate topics

What do people use regulate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Work and occupation Business organization

Management

Conjugation regulate conjugation

How do you conjugate regulate?

regulate · verb

Examples regulate examples

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Simple sentences

Forests regulate the water cycle and take away harmful carbon dioxide.
Sweating allows the human body to regulate its temperature.
Traffic lights are used to regulate traffic.
During warm weather, sweating helps man regulate his body temperature.
Many countries try to regulate the birth rate.

Movie subtitles

The Governor of Oklahoma to regulate oil production.
We can't regulate our people's feelings.
Regulate your breathing!
We can regulate the fire power and turn it off and on whenever we choose.
The pituitary hormones confirm the hypothesis. They also regulate body growth. Oh.
If she's cold, we can always regulate the temperature.
Plumber. I have to regulate those things.
The guys who regulate the races are rebelling.
I can 't regulate it down here.
Can't they regulate these suits?
I have to regulate the air pressure first.
Well. We know that the pineal gland helps to regulate the sex drive.
We regulate any stealing of his property. We're damn good too.
Assuming you can, can you regulate the reaction?
I'll regulate the speed so we'll reach the end of this leg here in darkness. All right, Andy.
Buttermilk and yogurt regulate the functioning of your alimentary canal.
They also regulate body growth.
All you poor laborers and farmers, we have tried time and again to tell you that there can be no resurrection for America until Congress begins to coin and to regulate the value of money.
On the cart here, we got two manometers with flow valves here and here to regulate gas.
If you can regulate your brain waves, you can control your heart rate, blood pressure, headaches, backaches, even, ladies, cold feet.
Soon chips can even regulate. our blood pressure.
We know that the pineal gland helps to regulate the sex drive.
But with the suit's onboard computer, we can regulate the supply of oxygenating fluid to his brain.
We try to cooperate with your government. But we cannot regulate the feelings of our people.
Organize, coordinate, regulate, hierarchize, prohibit, negate, remove, stop, slow down, forbid, discipline.
Regulate the sale of guitars!
I have to regulate the air pressure first, OK?
Endocrine, it carries secretions of certain glands like the thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary, which regulate growth.
If the State of Georgia can regulate Hardwick's sexuality engaged in private with consenting adults, Hardwick cannot be free.
The Fourth Amendment is designed to regulate. governmental activity only. and any private search, no matter how egregious. cannot be constitutionally prohibited.
I have to regulate the amount of pain that I take with it.
By which I regulate the Light Company. Fight well, fight hard.
I come from the midtown area where Lenny Weinrib, tortured by passions too overwhelming to regulate, did indeed call this little hustler on the phone. in earnest attempt to see her again.
To make your flight short. flight attendants are switching on the sleep regulator. which will regulate your sleeping during the flight.
I regulate my drug intake very precisely.
These segments regulate your body's metabolism.

News and current affairs

Australia and other countries provide models of how to do it: regulate and limit gun ownership to approved uses.
The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government's authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.
The world cannot do without rules; it cannot move forward against our age's most pressing problems without defined legal rules and the institutions that regulate international law.
In a democracy, standard restrictions regulate the time, place, and manner of speech in order to prevent imminent violence and civil disorder.
Can We Regulate Systemic Risk?
Since capital can now avoid states that tax and regulate, governments cater to its demands.
DRESDEN - To what extent should governments regulate or tax addictive behavior?
The state's role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.
Labour leaders like Clement Attlee, the first prime minister after World War II, were not opposed to a market economy; they just wanted to regulate markets in such a way that might best serve working-class interests.
Consider organizations that regulate medical licenses or administer medical emergency relief funds.
Government is hardly alone in creating the formal rules, principles, and guidelines that structure and regulate public life.
Others regulate the prices ISPs charge customers.
Countries that regulate entry by new ISPs in this way have fewer Internet users per capita, regardless of national income and general development of the telecommunications network.
Likewise, consumers in poor countries that regulate ISP prices pay more for Internet access than consumers in countries that don't.
LONDON - Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis.
Moreover, we are beginning to identify molecular mechanisms that regulate the entry of cancer cells into a dormant state, as well as their re-awakening at later times.
Even before the trawler incident, China was trying to regulate rare-earths, defining them as a strategic resource.
Chinese officials say that concern over the overexploitation and illicit export of rare earths prompted them to regulate the industry more closely.
Meanwhile, health authorities and governments have adopted a fear-based approach, scrambling to regulate - or even ban - PNVs.
The implication is that emerging markets, while encouraging foreign banks' entry, should at the same time strictly regulate such banks' local lending practices.
The new law seriously weakens Peru's ability to regulate land use, set environmental quality standards, and rein in corporate misconduct through environmental-impact assessments.

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