Regulate vs Compose - What's the difference?
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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.
To make something by merging parts.
* Bishop Sprat
To make up the whole; to constitute.
* I. Watts
(nonstandard) To comprise.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
* Alexander Pope
* B. R. Haydon
(sometimes, reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
* Dryden
To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 280:
To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
* Dryden
* Milton
(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
Regulate is a related term of compose.
As verbs the difference between regulate and compose
is that regulate is to dictate policy while compose is .As a noun compose is
compound.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
* * ----compose
English
(Composition)Verb
(compos)- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- Try to compose your thoughts.
- Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
- A church is composed of its members.
- A few useful things compose their intellectual possessions.
- The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
- Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
- It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.
- Let me compose / Something in verse as well as prose.
- the genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"
- The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
- Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
- By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision
- In a peaceful grave my corpse compose .
- How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.