Synonyms:
regulate, modulate
Meaning: fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
Synonyms:
regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern
Meaning: bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
Synonyms:
determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate
Meaning: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
Usage examples
It created the only space experts, which meant that the men placed in government agencies to regulate it came from its own ranks.
Even now the legislative power is asked, no longer simply to regulate the government of factories, but to create factories itself.
He wished to hasten their steps; but Athos took his arm and passed it under his own, and the young man was forced to regulate his pace by that of his friend.
This fact brings us to the conclusion that contraceptive measures among the upper classes and the practice of abortion among the lower class, are the real means employed to regulate the number of offspring."
They formed a conspiracy against property! Their law to regulate the labor of children in factories will, without doubt, prevent the manufacturer from compelling a child to labor more than so many hours a day; but it will not force him to increase the pay of the child, nor that of its father.
When a man is about to give a great feast in the rainy season and has invited many people, he goes to a weather-doctor and asks him to "prop up the clouds that may be lowering." If the doctor consents to exert his professional powers, he begins to regulate his behaviour by certain rules as soon as his customer has departed.