control
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹəʊl/
ipa: /kənˈtɹoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: controls
form: controlling
form: controlled
form: controlled
form: Ctrl
form: comptrol
form: comptroll
form: controll
form: controul
form: countrol
Etymology: From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).
Senses: examples: text: With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
text: This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
ref: 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
synonyms: besteer
bewield
manage
puppeteer
rule
glosses: To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
glosses: To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
examples: text: I fortuned to come in,
Thys rebell to behold,
Whereof I hym controld;
But he sayde that he wolde
Agaynst my mynde and wyll
In my church hawke styll.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 94–99:
glosses: To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
examples: text: Because only by the Capette Pellet method of hormonization can growers be assured of controlled dosage and uniform results.
ref: 1956, American Poultry Journal, volume 87, page 32:
glosses: To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
Hyponyms: take control
take the reins
hold the reins
Derived terms: array controller
Attempto Controlled English
autocontrolled
biocontrolling
CCB
CCN
CFC
climate-controlled
CNL
controlee
controllability
controllable
controllableness
controlled-access highway
controlled chaos
controlled explosion
controlled flight into terrain
controlledly
controlledness
controlled substance
controlled vocabulary
controllee
controller
controlling
controlling images
controlling interest
controllingly
controllingness
controlment
CR
currency control
DCV
decontrol
decontrolled
decontrolling
enantiocontrolled
enantiocontrolling
foreign exchange control
GCI
hypercontrolled
hypercontrolling
incontrollable
incontrollably
microcontrolled
mind controlled
miscontrol
myocontrolled
NCO
neurocontrolled
noncontrollable
noncontrolled
noncontrolling
overcontrol
paracontrolled
photocontrollability
photocontrollable
price-controlled
radio-controlled
recontrol
regiocontrolled
regiocontrolling
rent-controlled
self-control
semicontrolled
servocontrolled
silicon-controlled rectifier
stereocontrolling
supercontrolled
telecontrol
thermocontrolled
thermocontroller
thought-controlled
uncontrol
uncontrollability
uncontrollable
uncontrollableness
uncontrollably
uncontrolled
uncontrolledly
uncontrolledness
uncontrolling
uncontrollingly
undercontrolled
undercontroller
VCO
voluntary controlled school
Related terms: regulate