Organize vs Regulate - What's the difference?
organize | regulate |
To (l) in working order.
To (l) in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
* Cranch
To (l) with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
* Ray
(music) To sing in parts.
To dictate policy.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
* Macaulay
* Bancroft
To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
To put or maintain in order.
As verbs the difference between organize and regulate
is that organize is to arrange in working order while regulate is to dictate policy.organize
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Alternative forms
* organiseVerb
(organiz)- This original and supreme will organizes the government.
- These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce.
- to organize an anthem
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Derived terms
* organized * organizer * organization * self-organizeExternal links
* * ----regulate
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Verb
(regulat)- the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
- The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
- 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 regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
- to regulate one's eating habits
