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Regulate vs Reigle - What's the difference?

regulate | reigle |

As verbs the difference between regulate and reigle

is that regulate is to dictate policy while reigle is (obsolete) to regulate; to govern.

As a noun reigle is

a hollow cut or channel for guiding anything.

regulate

English

Verb

(regulat)
  • To dictate policy.
  • To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
  • * Macaulay
    • the laws which regulate the successions of the seasons
  • * Bancroft
    • The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
  • To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
  • To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
    • 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 put or maintain in order.
    • to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
    to regulate one's eating habits

    Derived terms

    * deregulate * downregulate * upregulate

    Related terms

    * rule * ruler * regulation * regulator

    External links

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    reigle

    English

    Verb

    (reigl)
  • (obsolete) To regulate; to govern.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow cut or channel for guiding anything.
    • the reigle of a side post for a flood gate
    (Carew)
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