What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Regulate vs Mobile - What's the difference?

regulate | mobile |

As a verb regulate

is to dictate policy.

As an adjective mobile is

capable of being moved.

As a noun mobile is

a sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().

regulate

English

Verb

(regulat)
  • To dictate policy.
  • To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
  • * Macaulay
    • the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
  • * Bancroft
    • The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
  • To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
  • To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
    • to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
    to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
  • To put or maintain in order.
    • to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
    to regulate one's eating habits

    Derived terms

    * deregulate * downregulate * upregulate

    Related terms

    * rule * ruler * regulation * regulator

    External links

    * * ----

    mobile

    English

    (wikipedia mobile)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being moved.
  • By agency of mobile phones.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
    • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
    • Mercury is a mobile liquid.
  • Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
    • (Testament of Love)
  • * Hawthorne
    • the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition
  • Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
    • mobile features
  • (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

    • Antonyms

    * fixed * immobile * sessile

    Derived terms

    * MASH * mobile library * mobile phone * mobile station

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other ().
  • A mobile phone ().
  • Something that can move.

    • Related terms

    * mobility * mobilize * mobilization * move

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----