"regulate" meaning in English

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      "form": "regulates",
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      "form": "regulated",
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  ],
  "hyphenation": "re‧gu‧late",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The industry has fought the state's attempts to regulate it."
        },
        {
          "text": "The Coast Guard has direct authority to regulate U.S. sailors and port workers."
        },
        {
          "text": "The government is considering a law that would regulate the prices of drugs."
        },
        {
          "text": "The state maintains the power to regulate all schools."
        }
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        "If you regulate something, you control it by making laws and rules."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You turn this to regulate the water flow."
        },
        {
          "text": "This part of the brain regulates activities such as decision-making and memory."
        }
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        "If x regulates y, x causes y to function in a particular way, often at a higher or lower level."
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      "ipa": "/ˈrɛɡjəleɪt/"
    },
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    }
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  "word": "regulate"
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    {
      "form": "regulates",
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    {
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "regulated",
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        "participle"
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    {
      "form": "regulating",
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        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
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  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "The industry has fought the state's attempts to regulate it."
        },
        {
          "text": "The Coast Guard has direct authority to regulate U.S. sailors and port workers."
        },
        {
          "text": "The government is considering a law that would regulate the prices of drugs."
        },
        {
          "text": "The state maintains the power to regulate all schools."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you regulate something, you control it by making laws and rules."
      ],
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          "text": "You turn this to regulate the water flow."
        },
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          "text": "This part of the brain regulates activities such as decision-making and memory."
        }
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