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| English Dictionary: regulating |
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DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for regulating |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- regulating
- n
- the act of controlling or directing according to rule;
"fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"
Synonym(s): regulation, regulating
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Regulated} (-l[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Regulating}.] [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula.
See {Regular}.]
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.
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