Regulate vs Compliant - What's the difference?
regulate | compliant |
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.
Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
As a verb regulate
is to dictate policy.As an adjective compliant is
willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.regulate
English
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
Derived terms
* deregulate * downregulate * upregulateExternal links
* * ----compliant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The suspect was compliant when arrested.
- The browser is standards compliant .
- The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.