regulate
/ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
Example Sentences
- "the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons"
- "The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police."
- "But on Tuesday, Sam Altman[…] testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft."
- "The NFA has been a flashpoint for advocates, who say that silencers are not frequently used in crime and believe that the silencers and other weapons regulated under the law, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns, are protected by the Second Amendment."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃reǵ-, regulatus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/
- British English: /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪt/