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Rules vs Govern - What's the difference?

rules | govern |

As verbs the difference between rules and govern

is that rules is (rule) while govern is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

As a noun rules

is .

rules

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (rule)
  • Anagrams

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    govern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
  • To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
  • Govern yourselves like civilized people.
    a student who could not govern his impulses.
  • To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
  • Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
  • To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
  • a valve that governs fuel intake.
  • To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  • To have or exercise a determining influence.
  • To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.