Stimulate vs Regulate - What's the difference?
stimulate | regulate |
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
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.
As verbs the difference between stimulate and regulate
is that stimulate is to encourage into action while regulate is to dictate policy.stimulate
English
Verb
(stimulat)Synonyms
* (encourage) encourage, induce, provoke * (arouse) animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk upAntonyms
* (arouse) de-energize, sedate, stifleAnagrams
* * ----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