Definition of regulate

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Regulate (v. t.) 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..

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Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
Proceed :: Proceed (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
Marshal :: Marshal (n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists..
Web :: Web (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
Number :: Number (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural..
Socialize :: Socialize (v. t.) To subject to, or regulate by, socialism..
Govern :: Govern (v. t.) To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority..
Cadence :: Cadence (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.
Self-regulative :: Self-regulative (a.) Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
Voice :: Voice (v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ..
Regulation :: Regulation (n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated..
Criticism :: Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism..
Regulate :: Regulate (v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws..
Conditionate :: Conditionate (v. t.) To qualify by conditions; to regulate.
Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..
Water Gate :: Water gate () A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated..
Smooth :: Smooth (a.) To ease; to regulate.
Policy :: Policy (v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
Regulator :: Regulator (n.) One who, or that which, regulates..
Irregulate :: Irregulate (v. t.) To make irregular; to disorder.
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