different between acclimatise vs regulate
acclimatise
English
Verb
acclimatise (third-person singular simple present acclimatises, present participle acclimatising, simple past and past participle acclimatised)
- Non-Oxford British English and New Zealand standard spelling of acclimatize.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- The England manager can be encouraged by more evidence that Rickie Lambert has quickly acclimatised to international football, with another headed goal to add to the one he scored against Scotland, but Welbeck's ban comes at a time when Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll are already out and Daniel Sturridge is likely to join them.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
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regulate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regulatus, past participle of regul? (“to direct, rule, regulate”), from regula (“rule”), from reg? (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????j?le?t/
- Hyphenation: re?gu?late
Verb
regulate (third-person singular simple present regulates, present participle regulating, simple past and past participle regulated)
- To dictate policy.
- To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
- 1834, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent
- The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
- 1834, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent
- To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.
- To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
- 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 put or maintain in order.
- to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
- to regulate one's eating habits
Derived terms
- deregulate
- downregulate
- upregulate
Related terms
- rule
- ruler
- regular
- regulation
- regulator
Translations
Further reading
- regulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- regulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- legature
Latin
Verb
r?gul?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of r?gul?
regulate From the web:
- what regulates body temperature
- what regulates what enters and leaves the cell
- what regulates the cell cycle
- what regulates blood pressure
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- what regulates the enzymes present in an organism
- what regulates metabolism
- what regulates circadian rhythms
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