Regulate(v. t.)
- To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
Regulate(v. t.)
- To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
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.
Regulation(n.)
- The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
Regulation(n.)
- A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
Regulations
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Regulative(a.)
- Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
Regulatively
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Regulator(n.)
- One who, or that which, regulates.
Regulator(n.)
- A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.
Regulator(n.)
- A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
Regulator(n.)
- A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes.
Regulators
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Regulator's
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Regulize(v. t.)
- To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
Regulized
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Regulizes
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Regulizing
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