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Definition: Regulate |
RegulateVerb1. Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch". 2. Impose regulations on. 3. Shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion". 4. Check the emission of (sound). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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A regulation (as a legal term) is a rule created by an administrative agency or body that interprets the statute(s) setting out the agency's purpose and powers, or the circumstances of applying the statute.In the context of government and public services regulation (as a process) is the control of something by rules, as opposed to its prohibition.
Regulation as a Process
Regulation is a compromise between prohibition and no control at all.
Public services can encounter conflict between commercial procedures (e.g. maximising income), and the interests of the people using these services. Most governments therefore have some form of control or regulation to manage this possible conflict. This regulation ensures that a safe and appropriate service is delivered, while not discouraging the effective functioning and development of businesses.
For example, the sale and consumption of alcohol and prescription drugs are controlled by regulation in most countries, as are the food business, provision of personal or residential care, public transport, construction, film and TV, etc..
Regulation can have several elements:
Even activities which are not public services often have a limited form of regulation, for example FIFA is the association for professional soccer, RYA is for sailing in Britain. Regulation therefore comes close to the idea of an ethics for a given activity, to promote the best interests of the people participating as well as the acceptable continuation of the activitiy itself within specified limits.
- Public statutes, standards or statements of expectations.
- A process of registration or licencing to approve and to permit the operation of a service usually by a named organisation or person.
- A process of inspection or other form of ensuring standard compliance, or reporting and management of non-compliance with these standards: where there is continued non-compliance, then:
- A process of de-licencing whereby that organisation or person is judged to be operating unsafely, and is ordered to stop operating at the expense of acting unlawfully.
Regulation as a legal term
A regulation is a form of secondary legislation which is used to implement a primary piece of legislation appropriately, or to take account of particular circumstances or factors emerging during the gradual implementation of, or during the period of, a primary piece of legislation.
Other forms of secondary legislation are statutory instruments, statutory orders, by-lawsand rules. Some of these (but not all of them) need to be referred back before being implemented, to the primary legislative process.
An example in Britain is that there is primary, Central Government legislation covering the operations of Local Authorities. These functions include Education, Social Services, Leisure provision, etc..
In that primary legislation there are provisions to allow Local Authorities to legislate for themselves, within reason and under proper process, on a range of matters in their areas of responsibility. This allows the law to be effectively applied with appropriate flexibility and taking account of local factors. These are often best known by the Local Authority concerned.
Regulations also assist the primary legislative process, the national parliament, to avoid the potential bottleneck of the detailed implementatin of all the laws it produces in all the varying cirumstances throughout the land or throughout the process of their implementation.
Concerning EC Law, Regulation has a general scope, and is obligatory in all its elements and directly applicable in all Member States of the European Union. For this reason it constitutes the most powerful or influential of the Community acts. A Directive, on the other hand, may only refer to a restricted number of member states.
Because regulations are directly effective, the individual countries do not need to pass local laws to bring them into effect, and indeed any local laws contrary to the regulation are overruled, as EC Law is supreme over the laws of the Member States. Member states therefore have to legislate in the light of, and consistently with the requirements of, EEC Regulations.
- "the Court of Justice has established a differentiation between what it calls 'Basic Regulations' and 'Execution Regulations'. 'Basic Regulations' establish essential rules governing a certain matter, and are normally adopted by the Council. Execution Regulations technically organise these principles; they are usually taken by the Commission or the Council acting on the basis of article 211."
Examples of matters introduced by regulation were the new '.eu' domain name, and the new European-level 'Community Design Right' an example of intellectual property right.
Trends towards de-regulation
Regulation can be seen to impose unnecessary 'red tape' and other restrictions on businesses. As a result, there has been a movement towards decreasing regulation in recent years.
One example is the international monetary system: it is now much easier to transfer capital between countries. As a result, the globalisation of markets has increased.
Privatisation of industries which had been under previous government control was a wide form of de-regulation in Britain throughout the later years of the last century. Some feel that although this has increased choice in services, nevertheless standards have declined and wages and employment have been reduced.
Other people feel that there has been little progress on this, and that controls on small businesses are greater than ever. They feel that de-regulation is an aspirational rather than a real intention.
See
- public affairs
- Deregulation
- emissions trading
- A glimpse into some United Kingdom deregulatory procedures
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Regulation."
Synonyms: RegulateSynonyms: baffle (v), determine (v), govern (v), influence (v), modulate (v), mold (v), order (v), regularize (v), shape (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: deregulate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Render accordant; Adjective: fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; (render, equal); dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square. |
Arrangement | Methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix. unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze. |
Direction | Verb: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle |
Legality | Verb: legalize; enact, ordain; decree; (order); pass a law, enact a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate. |
Order | Adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize. |
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Crosswords: Regulate |
| English words defined with "regulate": act on, adjust ♦ balance wheel, Batardeau, Bunsen, bunsen burner, bye law, bylaw ♦ choroid plexus, clock pendulum, Conditionate, control, Coordinate, cytokine ♦ Differential coupling, Dispositive, district ♦ Etna ♦ farm bill, FDA, feedback, Food and Drug Administration, Fortunize ♦ Gauge saw, gun control ♦ jockey club ♦ key ♦ medicine man, Misregulate ♦ NRC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ♦ pace, peg, Pinchcock, plexus choroideus, Police commissioner ♦ Reigle, rubricate ♦ scale, Scripturist, self-acting, self-activating, self-moving, self-regulating, Self-regulative, set, Socinianize, Spring pin ♦ t, tetraiodothyronine, the hour, thyroxin, thyroxine, time, To act on, To beat time, To dispose of, To ease a ship, To serve the time, To settle the land, trade bill ♦ verify ♦ Wheel plough, Wheel plow ♦ zone. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "regulate": Histonomy. (references) |
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Song Titles | Regulate (performing artist: Warren G. & Nate Dogg) | |
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 | This illustration with and without text, explains how a normal cell becomes a cancer cell. An oncogene in a normal cell appears to regulate and influence cell growth and division. When a cancer causing agent affects a cell's DNA and the oncogene is activated, a cancer cell develops. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Jane Hurd (artist). |  | Water control structure installed for wetland restoration in the prairie pothole region of South Dakota. The structure allows the landowner to regulate the depth of the water in the wetland thereby providing optimum habitat for water dependent wildlife. Credit: Don Poggensee. |
 | Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, To Regulate The Stomach, The Liver, The Bowels. : To cure Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation. / Donaldson Brothers, N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Justice Robert H. Jackson | It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes. |
Laurence Sterne | One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But whilst he is in an estate, wherein he has not understanding of his own to direct his will, he is not to have any will of his own to follow: he that understands for him, must will for him too; he must prescribe to his will, and regulate his actions; but when he comes to the estate that made his father a freeman, the son is a freeman too. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Further agreements will regulate all questions arising out of the cession of the above territory which are not regulated by the present Treaty. (reference) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. (reference) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string |
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Health | Regulate a doctor's practice. (references) | |
It also can regulate heart rhythm. (references) | ||
These hormones regulate blood glucose levels. (references) | ||
Business | The digital signature law will not regulate encryption of documents. (references) | |
Nonetheless, the Saudi government has already passed a number of laws and reforms to regulate the insurance industry. (references) | ||
In addition, the standards in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations are the standard used to regulate Mexican gas industry. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | Regulations require the Government to establish and regulate a national curriculum for special education by stipulating that the community should provide special education services to its children. (references) |
South Africa | The Eastern Cape Provincial Government introduced legislation to regulate traditional male circumcision and improve health standards during the ritual; however, it was not implemented by year's end. (references) | |
South Africa | The provincial department of health reported at least 18 deaths, 5 mutilations, and 42 hospitalizations during the summer initiation season that began in September 2000. In December 2000, provincial health authorities began to regulate the practice by requiring the presence of trained medical personnel during the rituals. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Central African Republic | In 2000 President Patasse dissolved the High Broadcast Council, which was created to regulate the media. (references) |
Greece | Minority religious groups have requested that the Government abolish laws that regulate house of prayer permits. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Parliament deliberated extensively during the year on a proposed law that would regulate religious organizations. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | The cantons regulate local government. (references) |
Botswana | Work permits regulate the employment of non-citizens in Botswana. (references) | |
Panama | Panamanian law does not regulate the registration of license agreements. (references) | |
Human Rights | Switzerland | Cantonal laws regulate police entry into private premises. (references) |
Guatemala | The 1999 Law on Judicial Careers established a system to regulate the income, terms of office, promotion, training, disciplinary measures, and other activities of judges and magistrates. (references) | |
Croatia | Despite orders from the national Government, local authorities (including local housing commissions) often did not take steps to regulate occupancy rights or to initiate lawsuits against individuals who refused to vacate occupied premises. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | At year's end, the Government still had taken no action on President Chavez's 1999 pledge to enact a new law to regulate the use of the Imataca forest reserve in Bolivar state and annul a 1997 Presidential decree permitting the expansion of legal mining activities there. (references) |
Political Economy | PARAGUAY | The law contains norms that regulate contracts related to copyrights. (references) |
MALAYSIA | Tariffs are the main instrument used to regulate the importation of goods in Malaysia. (references) | |
Trade | Nigeria | To register and regulate standards, marks and specifications. (references) |
West Bank | The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) has the power and responsibility to regulate and implement monetary policies. (references) | |
El Salvador | Temporary entry of goods for transformation, manufacture or repair is granted under laws that regulate free trade zones. (references) | |
Women | Czech Republic | Pimping is illegal; prostitution is not, although local communities have the right to regulate it and enforce restrictions. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | Election laws that apply to other social organizations regulate unions. (references) |
Sweden | Both the law and collective bargaining agreements regulate overtime and rest periods. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RICE-:WATER:, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | An attempt has been made with the Government of France to regulate by treaty the commerce between the two countries on the principle of reciprocity and equality. |
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| "Regulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.06% of the time. "Regulate" is used about 595 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 84.06% | 500 | 12,043 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.43% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.51% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 595 | N/A |
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Expressions using "regulate": be regulate by smb. ♦ to regulate a clock ♦ To regulate a watch. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "regulate": re-regulate. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "regulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), sistemoj (collate, dispose, house, organize, place, settle, shelve, systematize), përshtat (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, assort, enable, fit, fit in, match, readjust, retool, specialize, trim). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسق (arrangement, array, assort, coordinate, echelon, gear to, layout, manner, match, mode, orchestrate, ordain, range, rate, series, system), نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, monitor, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regularize, regulation, rightness, school, set, setting, square, strictness, test, tune, tuning). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, fix up, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), сверявам (check, correct, rectify, synchronize), слагам ред в, регулирам (adjust, govern, regularize, rubricate, temper, time, tune, tune up), контролирам (command, control, monitor, police, preside, superintend), направлявам (helm, pilot, rein). (various references) | |
Chinese | 調節 (adjust), 调控 (regulated, regulating), 絜 (clean, marking line, pure), ' (restrain), 正 . (various references) | |
Czech | regulovat (adjust, modulate), uspořádat (arrange, dispose, dress, make up, order, organize, put in order, regularize, re-sort, settle, sort), upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat, trim), přizpùsobit (accommodate, accustom to, adapt, adjust, assimilate, comply, conform, fit, modulate, quadrate, readjust, suit, tailor, temper, tune), řídit (administrate, conduct, control, direct, drive, fly, govern, guide, handle, head, keep, lead, manage, manoeuvre, navigate, operate, order, pilot, preside, steer, supervise, wield). (various references) | |
Danish | regulering af lysstyrke (to regulate the intensity of the light emitted), regulere virksomhedernes kapacitetsudnyttelse ved passende afgifter paa de maengder,som overskrider et referenceniveau (to regulate the level of activity of undertakings by appropriate levies on tonnages exceeding a reference level), regulere (to regulate, to smooth), planere (plan). (various references) | |
Dutch | regelen (arrange, fix up, organize, put in order, regularize, tidy), reguleren (regularize), reglementeren (regularize). (various references) | |
Esperanto | reguligi. (various references) | |
Farsi | میزان کردن (Adjust, Modulate, Orient, Range, Temper), تنظیم کردن (Adjust, Control, Edit, Frame, Modulate, Order, Redact, Regiment, Regularize), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references) | |
Finnish | rukata, säätää (adjust, direct, prescribe), säännellä (adjust), säännöstellä (ration), järjestellä (adjust, arrange, put in order). (various references) | |
French | régulariser (regularize), réglons, réglez, régler (regularize), réglent, réglementer. (various references) | |
German | regeln (administer, control, fix, fix up, manage, precepts, put in order, regularize, resolve, rules, see to, settle, sort out, to direct (to, to regularize, to regulate), regulieren (adjust, regularize, settle, to regulate). (various references) | |
Greek | κανονίζω (adjust, arrange, gear, make arrangements, order, set, settle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לוסת (adjust, modulate), ל"ס"יר (adjust, order, put to order, regularize, settle, square up). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendbe hoz (adjust, array, clean out, readjust, refit, repair, set right, to accommodate, to adjust, to do up, to fix, to furbish, to plaster up, to put right, to put sg straight, to recondition, to refit, to regulate, to set right, to set sg to rights, to set to rights, to tidy, to tidy up, to trim), szabályoz (adjust, control, modulate, regularize, to bring under regulation, to check, to condition, to control, to modulate, to regularize, to regulate, to rule), irányít (administer, boss, canalize, control, direct, govern, guide, head, manage, mastermind, Orient, orientate, oversaw, overseen, steer, to boss, to con, to conduct, to control, to dictate, to direct, to govern, to guide, to home, to misdirect, to oversee, to pilot, to regulate, to rule, to shepherd, to steer, to supervise, wend). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengaturtepatkan (adjust), mengatur (dispose, modulate, organize, oversee, straighten up). (various references) | |
Italian | regolare (act, adjust, arm, bogey, cash up, control, control oneself, direct, even, formal, guide, level, modulate, normal, point, proper, regular, regularize, rule, rules, set, settle, smooth, Square, standard, steady, systematic, systematical, trim, tune). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 出費'抑える (limit, suppress one's expenses, to regulate). (various references) | |
Korean | 통 하십시". (various references) | |
Manx | stiurey (captain as team; guidance, captain; guidance, command, control, controllability, direct, direction, guide, handle, handling, helm, lead, manage, manipulate, manipulation, navigate, navigation, pilot, piloting, regulation, rudder, steer, steering, superintendence, supervise, supervision), reilley (regulation, reign, rule, ruling), reill (code, govern, order, policy, principle, reign, rule), curmal (appoint, duty, enforce, enjoin, impose), curmaghey (appoint, appointment, impose, regulation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egulateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regularizar (methodize, regularize). (various references) | |
Romanian | regula (set, temper, trim), reglementa (arrange, control, establish), regla (adjust, control, correct, lay, rate, set, tune, tune in to), rândui (arrange, array, Marshal, order, Stow, systematize), tempera (attemper, chasten, mitigate, moderate, modify, temper), stabili (appoint, arrange, ascertain, assess, calm, clinch, conclude, constitute, decree, determine, erect, establish, fix, institute, introduce, lay down, Lodge, measure, nail down, name, nominate, set, set out, settle, spot, state, verify), potrivi (accommodate, accord, adapt, adjust, arrange, correct, dovetail, fit, fit in, match, put, reconcile, rectify, register, reset, shape, smooth, Square, trim, trim in), orândui (appoint, arrange, classify, decide, direct, dispose, foreordain, make tidy, set, size, tidy up, trim), modera (curb, dilute, diminish, moderate, reduce, temper), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), adapta (adapt, adjust, arrange, dramatize, frame, readjust, suit, tally). (various references) | |
Russian | регулировать (adjust, attemper, control, govern, rate, readjust, regulated, temper). (various references) | |
Scottish | riaghail (govern, rule). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | regulisati (control, direct, regularize, throttle, tune), udesiti (arrange, key, load, organize, preen, redecorate, rig out, tune, tune up), podesiti (adjust, bring back, fit, model, modulate, preset, tune, tune up, zero), doterati (adjust, drive, furbish, lick into shape, nidge, polish, smarten, spruce, straighten out, touch up). (various references) | |
Spanish | regular (formal, indifferent, medium, middling, moderate, normal, regular, so so, time, tolerable). (various references) | |
Swedish | styra (control, direct, govern, guide, head, helm, manipulate, rule, steer), rucka (move), reglera (adjust, govern, regularize, Square), ordna (adjust, arrange, arrange for, array, assort, compose, dispose, do, dress, lay on, put in order, rank, see, settle, sort). (various references) | |
Turkish | ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regularize, reset, scale, set, Square, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune). (various references) | |
Turkmen | regulirlemek (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | регулювати (adjust, condition, govern, temper), вивіряти (calibrate, verify). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | disponam, disponamus, disponat, dispone, disponens, disponent, disponentur, dispones, disponet, disponis, dispono, disposita, dispositi, disposito, dispositum, disposuerat, disposuerunt, disposui, disposuisti, disposuit, moderate, moderato, moderatur, ordinabis, ordinabuntur, ordinant, ordinantes, ordinare, ordinasti, ordinata, ordinatae, ordinati, ordinatione, ordinationi, ordinatis, ordinatores, ordinatus, ordinaverunt, ordinavit, ordinem, ordines, ordino, praeordinati, praeordinatis, praeordinavit, regula, temperare, tempero. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "regulate": regulated, regulates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "regulate": deregulate, overregulate, reregulate, thermoregulate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "regulate": deregulated, deregulates, nonregulated, overregulated, overregulates, reregulated, reregulates, thermoregulated, thermoregulates, unregulated. (additional references) | |
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"Regulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ergolite, Gerulot, reglaze, regula, regulae, regulare, regulat, reguli, regulo, relugate, rivulare. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regulate" (pronounced re"gyulā't) |
| 8 | r e" g y u l ā' t | overregulate, reregulate. |
| 6 | -g y u l ā' t | coagulate, strangulate. |
| 5 | -y u l ā' t | articulate, accumulate, calculate, circulate, copulate, depopulate, emulate, formulate, inoculate, manipulate, miscalculate, populate, recalculate, reformulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, tabulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | annihilate, adulate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: leaguer, tegular. | |
-2 letters: eaglet, elater, eluate, ergate, galere, gelate, league, legate, regale, reglet, reglue, relate, rugate, telega, tergal. | |
-3 letters: aglee, aglet, agree, alert, alter, arete, argle, argue, artel, auger, eager, eagle, eagre, eater, egret, elate, elute, gault, glare, gleet, gluer, grate, great, greet, gruel, gular, lager, laree, large, later, leger, luger, lutea, ragee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: regulated, regulates. | |
+2 letters: deregulate, outgeneral, regulative, reregulate, travelogue. | |
+3 letters: deregulated, deregulates, gratefuller, legislature, outgenerals, reregulated, reregulates, slaughtered, slaughterer, travelogues, unregulated. | |
+4 letters: daughterless, deregulating, deregulation, gracefullest, gratefullest, gratefulness, legislatures, metallurgies, nonregulated, outgeneraled, overregulate, preslaughter, reevaluating, regularities, reregulating, reregulation, slaughterers. | |
+5 letters: beleaguerment, deregulations, outgeneraling, overregulated, overregulates, reregulations, stereoregular, unforgettable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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