Supervise vs Govern - What's the difference?
supervise | govern |
To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
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, title= (obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
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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.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between supervise and govern
is that supervise is to direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge while govern is to require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.supervise
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Verb
(supervis)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- Let me supervise the canzonet.
govern
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Verb
(en verb)- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.