Checking and Regulate
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Check.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.
- usage: "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
- synonyms: modulate
- Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.
- usage: "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
- synonyms: regularize, regularise, order, govern
- Shape or influence; give direction to.
- usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
- Check the emission of (sound. ).
- synonyms: baffle
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To adjust by rule, method or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary