Dictionary entry details
• REGULATE (verb)
Meaning:
Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
regulate; modulate
Context examples:
regulate the temperature / modulate the pitch
Hypernyms (to "regulate" is one way to...):
adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
govern; regularise; regularize; regulate; order
Context examples:
We cannot regulate the way people dress / This town likes to regulate
Hypernyms (to "regulate" is one way to...):
decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regulate"):
standardise; standardize (cause to conform to standard or norm)
district; zone (regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns)
Sentence frames:
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Antonym:
deregulate (lift the regulations on)
Meaning:
Shape or influence; give direction to
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
shape; determine; influence; regulate; mold
Context examples:
experience often determines ability / mold public opinion
Hypernyms (to "regulate" is one way to...):
cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regulate"):
dispose; incline (make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief)
predetermine (determine beforehand)
pace (regulate or set the pace of)
index (adjust through indexation)
time (set the speed, duration, or execution of)
reshape (shape anew or differently)
decide (influence or determine)
carry weight (have influence to a specified degree)
miscreate (shape or form or make badly)
disincline; indispose (make unwilling)
Sentence frames:
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Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
Meaning:
Check the emission of (sound)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
baffle; regulate
Hypernyms (to "regulate" is one way to...):
bound; confine; limit; restrain; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or access))
Sentence frame:
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