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Regulating   /rˈɛgjəlˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Regulating

noun
1.
The act of controlling or directing according to rule.  Synonym: regulation.



Regulate

verb
(past & past part. regulated; pres. part. regulating)
1.
Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of.  Synonym: modulate.  "Modulate the pitch"
2.
Bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations.  Synonyms: govern, order, regularise, regularize.  "This town likes to regulate"  Antonym: deregulate.
3.
Shape or influence; give direction to.  Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, shape.  "Mold public opinion"
4.
Check the emission of (sound).  Synonym: baffle.



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"Regulating" Quotes from Famous Books



... which proves a great conveniency to families." It was not as if such a thing as a close season had never been known. Five hundred years before the date above mentioned there were laws in existence regulating the capture of salmon, and in the reign of James I of Scotland the law was most stringent. In 1424 it was enacted that "Quha sa ever be convict of Slauchter of Salmonde in tyme forbidden be the Law, he shall pay ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... husband's chambers with her brain in a whirl, hardly knowing where she was going until she found herself held up with a stream of pedestrians at the island intersection of Waterloo Bridge and the Strand. She thought the policeman who was regulating the traffic eyed her curiously, and, more with the object of evading his eye than with any set plan in her mind, she stepped into an empty taxi-cab which was waiting to cross ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

... myself do a dishonest thing."—This is a simple but not inappropriate illustration of principle, or conscience, dominating in the character, and exercising a noble protectorate over it; not merely a passive influence, but an active power regulating the life. Such a principle goes on moulding the character hourly and daily, growing with a force that operates every moment. Without this dominating influence, character has no protection, but is constantly liable to fall away before temptation; and every such temptation succumbed to, every ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

... consumption of oats, and improve the condition of his fellow-quadrupeds. He was not versed in political economy, nor, indeed, economy of any kind. He had heard much of demand and supply, and the difficulty of regulating them properly; but, for his own part, he found the latter always equalled the former, though he understood such was not the case with his less fortunate brethren. He warmly advocated the practice of sowing wild oats, and considered that much of the decrease of consumption complained ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various

... clinker door, and ash-pan door are all in front. All holes are hot, and the oven is heated on six sides, making it not only an even baker, but a sure baker on the bottom. One damper does the whole regulating business. A guard rail to keep the clothes from contact with the heated surface and convenient towel driers are also provided. There is no nickel finish, but solid bronze instead. These are features which ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 10, October 1895. - French Farmhouses. • Various


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