Difference between Modulate and Regulate

What is the difference between Modulate and Regulate?

Modulate as a verb is to regulate, adjust or adapt while Regulate as a verb is to dictate policy.

Modulate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To regulate, adjust or adapt To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression

Regulate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To dictate policy.To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.

Example sentence: FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like roads and bridges.

We hope you now know whether to use Modulate or Regulate in your sentence.

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