Difference between Order and Regulate

What is the difference between Order and Regulate?

Order as a verb is to set in (any) order (1). while Regulate as a verb is to dictate policy.

Order

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Arrangement, disposition, sequence. The state of being well arranged. A command. A request for some product or service. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order. A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order. a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure. The number of vertices in a graph A partially ordered set.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To set in (any) order (1). To set in (a good) order (2). To issue a command. To request some product or service.

Example sentence: You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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: The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

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