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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regulated (-l[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Regulating .] [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See Regular .] To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Regulate " is a song performed by Warren G and Nate Dogg . Released in the summer of 1994, the track appears on the soundtrack to the film Above the Rim and later Warren G.'s album Regulate...G Funk Era . The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch" [syn: modulate ] bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES regulate an industry (= control an industry so that it does not make unfair profits ) ▪ A new agency was created to regulate the telecommunications industry. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB closely ▪ Computerized systems ...
Usage examples of regulate.
The United States is asserting its sovereign power to regulate commerce and to control the navigable waters within its jurisdiction.
Within hours of each other there had been an admission from a car crash to set up on traction after Orthopaedics had finished patching him up and drips and analgesia to regulate in the sterile side ward for two young burns victims from a house fire.
During the past twenty years, repeated attempts have been made in New York, in Massachusetts, in Pennsylvania, and in the city of Washington, to obtain some legislation regulating the practice of animal experimentation to the extent which obtains in England.
Bill regulating the practice of animal experimentation in the District of Columbia.
We have to replace leaked gases, regulate the temperature, control the hydrological cycle and trace contaminants.
In both cases combat films, as opposed to torture and execution sequences, were found to have a marked hypotensive role, regulating blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rates to acceptable levels.
In the lower animals, the VNO sends messages along special nerves not only to the cortex but directly to the hypothalamus, where the emotions and reproduction are regulated.
Other symptoms--poor sleep, appetite, and sex drive--are regulated by the hypothalamus, so it may be malfunctioning.
The locutory was situated next to the turnstile gate, and its use was regulated, restricted, and always required the presence of a chaperone.
I mean these malpractice suits springing up like weeds I mean you standing right there talking Oscar out of bringing a malpractice suit worried about Sam, about our friend Sam and this whole revolting self regulating conspiracy is that when he did it?
The graceful arches and red-velvet pillars were replaced by metalloid assembly lines and by emotionless robots that regulated the constant flow of weaponry.
Wyfold thankfully showed no signs of regulating the flow into the careful officialese of a formal statement.
It gave me the impression of a disordered mechanism which had escaped the repressive and regulating action of some controlling partan effect such as might be expected if a pawl should be jostled from the teeth of a ratchet-wheel.
But of greatest interest is her remarkable control over the muscles which regulate the division and modification of the resonant cavities, the laryngeal, pharyngeal, oral, and nasal, and upon this depends the quality of her voice.
Maltravers, from that fatality which undoubtedly regulates and controls us, at last accepted the proffered distinction.