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UK
/ɹˈɛɡjuːlˌeɪt/
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[ US /ˈɹɛɡjəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛɡjəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
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bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
This town likes to regulate
We cannot regulate the way people dress -
shape or influence; give direction to
mold public opinion
experience often determines ability -
fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
regulate the temperature
modulate the pitch - restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
How To Use regulate In A Sentence
- Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Meanwhile, in January 1999, FDA rescinded its compliance policy guide that had regulated third-party servicers of medical devices.
- The networks related to cellular development and connective tissue disorder showed that enzymes such as phosphoglycerate 12 mutase (glycolysis), muscle proteins such as myosin heavy chain 4 (Actin cytoskeleton signaling), nebulin-related anchoring protein (Actin binding protein) were significantly down regulated by TWEAK ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- It is not hard to fathom why Rwanda, still not fully healed from an ethnic slaughter that was egged on by radio zealots, would look for ways to regulate what it calls "divisionism" in the media. NYT > Home Page
- Regulate partial existing long distance line.
- The voluntary muscles are regulated by the parts of the brain known as the cerebral motor cortex and the cerebellum.
- Your stepson could have been left in a dysregulated state whereby he is primed to be constantly hypervigilant to threat and to respond. Times, Sunday Times
- Light signalling pathways from both phytochrome and cryptochrome photoreceptors regulate clock components to achieve entrainment in plants.
- Development Minister Roelf Meyer, Mr SS van der Merwe, told the committee on Tuesday that as the constitution regulated the relationship between the Minister and his Deputy, the Act should stipulate a full Minister as his consultee. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Wisconsin Deer Baiting and Wildlife Feeding Regulations [PDF 243KB] pamphlet provides the regulations that are in place for counties where deer baiting and feeding is banned, as well as the regulations that have been developed in the counties where deer baiting and feeding is allowed, but regulated. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
