Govern vs Stipulate - What's the difference?
govern | stipulate |
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
As verbs the difference between govern and stipulate
is that govern is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in while stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.As an adjective stipulate is
(botany) having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.govern
English
Verb
(en verb)- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.