Social life
Synonyms for regulate
Synonyms for regulate: order, modulate and calibrate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for regulate
Interchangeable with regulate, one per sense
Audited under regulate's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one regulate carries in that sense.
- orderverb, in the sense "bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage"
- modulateverb, in the sense "fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name regulate as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- calibratecalibrate is a verb in the sense "to adjust an instrument or process precisely for accuracy"
The first group is filed under regulate's own senses. The second reaches regulate from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage
He took a week to regulate his affairs before the trip.
The true synonym
order
Same sentence, swapped: He took a week to order his affairs before the trip.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where regulate stands in the sentence above.
- mould
- baffle
- orient
fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
Regulate the temperature.
The true synonym
modulate
Same sentence, swapped: Modulate the temperature.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- mould
- plumb
- align
Where regulate turns up in the game
regulate is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where regulate is the trap
- commemorateverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is honor, in the sense "to honor the memory of something with a ceremony or event", and regulate is on the board beside it.
Play regulate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so regulate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other social life words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
regulate is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.