govern

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

   “The old king governed the land wisely.”

2. fiil To exercise political authority; to run a government.

   “Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.”

3. fiil To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

   “Govern yourselves like civilized people.”

4. fiil To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

   “Chance governs the outcome of many card games.”

5. fiil To have or exercise a determining influence.
6. fiil To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
7. fiil To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

   “a valve that governs fuel intake”

8. fiil To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
9. fiil To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).

   “from my vncles country of Medea, Where all my youth I haue bene gouerned, […]”

10. fiil To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
11. fiil To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.

    “In Latin (Russian, German, etc.), not only verbs, but also prepositions, may govern the noun, pronoun or noun-phrase dependent upon them in a particular case: e.g. ad urbem, ‘to the city’ (ad ‘takes the accusative’: urbem) v. ab urbe, ‘from the city’ (ab ‘takes the ablative’: urbe).”

12. isim The act of governing