Regulate vs Regulable - What's the difference?
regulate | regulable | Related terms |
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.
Of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.
Regulate is a related term of regulable.
As a verb regulate
is to dictate policy.As an adjective regulable is
of or pertaining to being controllable; able to be made subject to regulation.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
* * ----regulable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Many businesses are regulable because of the interstate commerce clause of the United States' Constitution.