Regulate vs Prohibition - What's the difference?
regulate | prohibition |
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.
An act of prohibiting]], forbidding, disallowing, or [[proscribe, proscribing something.
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
As a verb regulate
is to dictate policy.As a proper noun prohibition is
(history) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.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