regulate
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
regulate/ˈreɡjuleɪt/
▶verb
- 1 control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process).
- 2 control or supervise by means of rules and regulations.
– derivatives
regulable adjective,
regulative adjective,
regulator noun,
regulatory adjective.
regulable adjective,
regulative adjective,
regulator noun,
regulatory adjective.
– origin ME: from late L. regulat-, regulare ‘direct, regulate’, from L. regula ‘rule’.
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baffle
- commissioner
- commutate
- control
- damper
- dial
- hormone
- leptin
- manage
- modulate
- operon
- poikilotherm
- pupil
- puritan
- sinoatrial node
- Trade Board
- turnbuckle
- voice
- weir
