control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹəʊl/
ipa: /kənˈtɹoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: controls
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: The government has complete control over the situation.
glosses: An influence or authority over something.
glosses: The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
examples: text: She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
glosses: A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
qualifier: project management
glosses: A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
glosses: A control group or control experiment.
examples: text: “The entries in the control accounts reflect respectively the effect of the transactions on the value of Korrinna company’s receivables (sales ledger control account) and payables (purchase ledger control account.”
ref: 2006, Henry Lunt, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, page 297:
text: "Make sure you enter the total of any credit balances in the sales ledger into the Sales Ledger Control Account and the total of any debit balances in the purchase ledger into the Purchase Ledger Control Account."
ref: 2012, Harold Randall, David Hopkins, Cambridge International AS and A Level Accounting Textbook, page 78:
text: “Wages Control Account: This account records wage transactions in aggregate. Postings are made from wage analysis sheet. This account is debited with gross wages (paid and accrued) and is closed by transfer of direct wages to work-in-progress and indirect wages to factory, administration and selling and distribution overheads control accounts as illustrated below:”
ref: 2012, Aurora M.N., A textbook of Cost and Management Accounting, 10th Edition, page 12-3:
glosses: A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: widget
glosses: An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
examples: text: "Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides, controls, psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
examples: text: […] the self-acknowledged stereotype of the audaxer as a socially awkward middle-aged man, […] carefully avoiding eye contact as a volunteer serves him his cup of tea and plate of baked beans in one of the draughty village halls that typically host audax controls.
ref: 2019, Emily Chappell, Where There's a Will:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A checkpoint along an audax route.
Hyponyms: air traffic control
control tower
cruise control
edge control
flight control
master control
mind control
mission control
proportional control
race control
Derived terms: 1ANCP
1NCP
AACC
AACO
AADCCS
ABAC
ABC
ABCA
ABCCC
AC
ACA
ACC
access control
access control list
ACCH
ACE
ACL
adaptive control
adaptive-control function
advanced train control system
AEC
AGC
air traffic control
animal control officer
anticontrol
area control center
arms control
ARTCC
ASQC
ATC
authority control
automatic distance control
automatic train control
AWACS
BCD
BCP
biocontrol
biological control
birth control
birth control glasses
board of control
body control module
border control
C3CM
C3ISTAR
C4ISR
capital control
carriage control character
CC
CCP
CDC
cene
CHOP
clan control
climate control
CMG
CNC
coercive control
cognitive control
command and control
compound control
control arm
control booth
control brief
control briefs
control bus
control car
control center
control centre
control character
control chart
control city
control code
control column
control coupling
control engineering
control experiment
control flow
control-flow graph
control freak
control freakery
control function
control gene
control grid
control group
controligarch
control joint
control key
control knickers
controlless
controllessness
control mechanism
control number
control of conception
Contrology
control order
control pad
control panel
control pants
control point
control rod
control room
control stick
control structure
control surface
control theory
control tower
control unit
control variable
control verb
control wheel
COSHH
CP/M
crawl control
crowd control
crowd control barrier
cruise control
CTC
Ctrl-Alt-Delete
CWS
DAC
DACL
damage control
DCL
DCS
DCV
diastereocontrol
DNC
DPCCH
dual control
DVCS
dyscontrol
ECB
ECC
ECDC
ECLSS
ECM
ECTS
edge control
electronic stability control
enantiocontrol
ESC
ETCS
executive control
FAC
face control
FACP
FCB
FCT
FCV
feature control frame
feedforward control
flight control
flow control
GCP
GFC
ground control
ground control point
gun control
HACCP
HDLC
HQC
HS-SCCH
ICMP
ILPC
impulse control disorder
in control
inversion of control
JCL
job control
knife control
LACC
LCBO
LCCN
Line of Actual Control
Line of Control
LLC
LOAC
LOC
lose control
MAC
MAC address
macrocontrol
MCO
MCU
message control
MGCC
milieu control
mind control
MOCC
movement control order
MVCC
myocontrol
NAFDAC
NCB
numerical control
object-control
OCC
OCCB
OCN
OFAC
OLPC
Open Sound Control
out of control
parental control
PCA
PCB
PCM
PDC
perceptual control theory
pest control
photocontrol
portion control
positive control
price control
procontrol
PTC
pussy control
QA/QC
QAC
QCU
quality control
radio control
RBAC
RCS
reaction control system
regiocontrol
rent control
reservoir control
RTC
SCADA
SDLC
sea control ship
self-control
servocontrol
slow speed control
SMC
social control
source control
span of control
spin control
statistical process control
stereocontrol
stock control
subcontrol
subject-control
superintending control
tab control
tactical air control center
take control
tank controls
target control
task control
TCA
TCC
TCP/IP
TCS
TCU
terminal control area
thought control
time control
time optimal control problem
timestamp-based concurrency control
time-varied gain control
TPC
TRACON
Transmission Control Protocol
TSCA
TVC
UAC
under control
user control
VCPI
VCS
VCU
version control
vibration control
VISCMA
VTC
WWMCCS
XACML