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- Regulate - v. t. - To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
- Regulate - v. t. - To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
- Regulate - v. t. - To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- Regulated - imp. & p. p. - of Regulate
- Pinchcock - n. - A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
- Minuet - n. - A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.
- Regulate - v. t. - To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
- Guide - v. t. - To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
- Regulate - v. t. - To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
- Moderator - n. - The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
- Cadence - v. t. - To regulate by musical measure.
- Diet - v. t. - To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
- Criticism - n. - The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
- Coordinate - v. t. - To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.
- Web - n. - A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
- Marshal - n. - The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
- Govern - v. t. - To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.
- Wield - v. t. - To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
- Self-regulative - a. - Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
- Scripturist - n. - One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them.
- Supply - a. - Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything; as, a supply tank or valve.
- Damper - n. - That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
- Fortunize - v. t. - To regulate the fortune of; to make happy.
- Policy - v. t. - To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
- Adjust - v. t. - To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
- Socialize - v. t. - To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
- Pendulum - n. - A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
- Voice - v. t. - To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
- Batardeau - n. - A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
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