Regulate vs Cyclin - What's the difference?
regulate | cyclin |
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.
(protein) Any of a group of proteins whose presence in a cell varies through its cycle, and that regulates this cycle by forming a complex with kinase
As a verb regulate
is to dictate policy.As a noun cyclin is
(protein) any of a group of proteins whose presence in a cell varies through its cycle, and that regulates this cycle by forming a complex with kinase.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