Regulate and Regularizing

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"
  • synonyms: determine, shape, mold, influence
• Check the emission of (sound. ).
  • synonyms: baffle

• (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.