2016 World Cup of Hockey schedule announced. 2016 World Cup of Hockey schedule announced. Eight teams to compete in a best-on-best international hockey championship. TORONTO -- The National Hockey League (NHLÂ®) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) announced today the schedule for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Regulate is defined as to control, direct or adjust. 1  An example of regulate is for a committee to make rules that control trade in an area. 2  An example of regulate is to change the temperature on the heater.
Word Origin & History. regulate c.1630, from L.L. regulatus, pp. of regulare to control by rule, direct (5c.), from L. regula rule (see regular). Regulation is first recorded 1672, act of regulating; sense of rule for management is first attested 1715. Regulator is first recorded 1655; in Eng. history, with a capital R-, member of a commission appointed in 1687 to manage county elections..