What is the difference between regulate and throttle?
regulate | throttle |
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 valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
The windpipe or trachea.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.
* Milton
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between regulate and throttle
is that regulate is to dictate policy while throttle is to cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).As a noun throttle is
a valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.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
* * ----throttle
English
(wikipedia throttle)Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(throttl)- Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
- Throttle their practised accent in their fears.