Regulate vs Modulate - What's the difference?
regulate | modulate |
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 regulate, adjust or adapt
To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
(electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
(music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
As verbs the difference between regulate and modulate
is that regulate is to dictate policy while modulate is to regulate, adjust or adapt.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