Regulate vs Tailor - What's the difference?
regulate | tailor |
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.
A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
(Australia) The fish .
To make, repair, or alter clothes.
To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need
As verbs the difference between regulate and tailor
is that regulate is to dictate policy while tailor is to make, repair, or alter clothes.As a noun tailor is
a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.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
* * ----tailor
English
(wikipedia tailor)Alternative forms
* tailour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* tailorbird * tailoress * tailor-fashion * tailor-made * tailor's chalk * tailor's dummySynonyms
* (fish ) bluefishVerb
(en verb)- .