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Regulate   /rˈɛgjəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Regulate

verb
(past & past part. regulated; pres. part. regulating)
1.
Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.  Synonym: modulate.  "Modulate the pitch"
2.
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.  Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize.  "This town likes to regulate"
3.
Shape or influence; give direction to.  Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, shape.  "Mold public opinion"
4.
Check the emission of (sound).  Synonym: baffle.






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... lands, spoiling crops and orchards, and making the streams shallow, their waters muddy. So great was the destruction this process caused that, in 1893, the Congress of the United States enacted a law which provided for the creation of a Debris Commission to regulate the business of hydraulic mining in California. The result of the investigations of this commission was to put a stop to all hydraulic mining in territory drained by the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, or any other territory where the use of this form of mining should injure the river systems ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini

... you to understand it," Hunterleys retorted coolly. "I claim the right to regulate my wife's visiting ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... lay a duty on anyone article, which might not in someway affect the property of individuals. But if the laws respecting the Slave Trade implied a contract for its perpetual continuance, the House could never regulate any other of the ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

... a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek. "We must look a long way back," says Raleigh, "to find the Romans giving laws to nations, and their consuls bringing kings and princes bound in chains to Rome in triumph; to see men go to ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... must be borne in mind that it is difficult to regulate the temperature, &c., in consecutive experiments so as to get exactly similar results, so that the range in consecutive cupellations is greater than that in a batch ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer


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