govern: significato e definizioni

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

To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate: a valve that governs fuel intake.

To control the actions or behavior of: Govern yourselves like civilized people.

To keep under control; restrain: a student who could not govern his impulses.

To exercise a deciding or determining influence on: Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.

Grammar To require (a specific morphological form) of accompanying words.

To exercise political authority.

To have or exercise a determining influence.