What's the difference between attemper and regulate?

Attemper


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
  • (v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.
  • (v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.
  • (v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both the in vitro and the in vivo aspects of the problem are discussed in some detail and an attemps is made to provide a reasonably unified concept for both.
  • (2) Tottenham’s Danny Rose apologises for setting bad example in Chelsea draw Read more The ill feeling spilled over into the tunnel at the end as Spurs and Chelsea players got involved in a rolling maul which led to the home manager Guus Hiddink being sent flying and his counterpart Mauricio Pochettino attemping to prise the multiple brawlers apart.
  • (3) Ninety-three were complete amputations and 80 of these survived; 49 were incomplete amputations and 46 survived after revascularization attemps.
  • (4) This study attemped to identify traits that might be described as "typical" of black elementary school children.
  • (5) The letest attemp to treat O. i. is the application of calcitonin.
  • (6) As an attemp to improve the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of neoplastic neck nodes, we are evaluating ultrasound B-scans.
  • (7) The prevention of recurrences of bladder cancer was attemped in 48 patients by means of the combined intravesical instillation of thio-tepa and urokinase and in 28 patients through the instillation of thio-tepa alone.
  • (8) The authors have attemped to give characteristics of the epileptical syndrome, provocated by ascarides and seat-worms.
  • (9) Although these attemps have been unsuccessful thus far, the approach described in this report provides an example of an objective, quantitative, biochemical assessment of ciliary function.
  • (10) This work attemps to find, by the technique of the one-step growth curve in suspended cells, if the virus replication scheme is similar to other poxviruses.
  • (11) In the Berlevag project attemps have been made at using psycho-physiological and cognitive measures as indexes of psychiatric morbidity.--With skin conductance response, psychotics and neurotics showed signs of autonomic inhibition compared with conduct disorders and normal controls.
  • (12) Attemps to correlate phenytoin ClB with basal metabolic rate also failed.
  • (13) Reference is made to several attemps of limiting or reducing the popularity of their use which took place in mid eighties.
  • (14) Attemps at immunotherapy over the years are reviewed and new directions are presented.
  • (15) Five patients underwent peroperative haemodynamic assessment in order to attemps to define the role of nitroglycerine used during this period.
  • (16) This work encompasses a 20-year period, during which a urologist spent an important part of his time in a children's hospital, because of his conviction that attemps at effective treatment of urinary passage anomalies in childhood have a chance only when treatment is begun as early as possible.
  • (17) Attemps for mechanical or physical factors as explanation are not convincing.
  • (18) This letter attemps to show that previously published reports claiming that irrigation of the vas after vasectomy, with nitrofurans or euflavine solutions does not dispense with the need for subsequent semen analyses.
  • (19) The 2014 budget was a very serious structural attemp­t to tackle our long-term spending problems.” Abbott defended the cuts to health and education and other measures in the Coalition’s deeply unpopular 2014 budget, which led to a run of dismal opinion polls for the Coalition ending in Abbott’s ousting.
  • (20) This study attemped to isolate some of the stimulus variables that controlled the self-destructive behavior of a psychotic child.

Regulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
  • (v. t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
  • (v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
  • (2) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (3) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
  • (4) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
  • (5) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (6) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (7) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (8) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (9) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
  • (10) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (11) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (12) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
  • (13) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
  • (14) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (15) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
  • (16) The results suggest differential regulation of IL-6 expression between fibroblasts and macrophages.
  • (17) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (18) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
  • (19) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (20) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.

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