control
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
computing
cycling
engineering
graphical-user-interface
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
parapsychology
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
sciences
sports
statistics
Etymology: From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulus (“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”).
Partly displaced native Old English wealdan and Old English wieldan, whence their merged reflex English wield.
Inflected forms:
form: controls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: controlling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: controlled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: controlled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Ctrl
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: comptrol
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: comptroll
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: controll
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: controul
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: countrol
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: controls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ctrl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: comptrol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: comptroll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: controll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: controul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: countrol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
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.
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.
gloss: (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Because only by the Capette Pellet method of hormonization can growers be assured of controlled dosage and uniform results.
gloss: An influence or authority over something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The government has complete control over the situation.
gloss: The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A control group or control experiment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “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.”
"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."
“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:”
gloss: An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "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."
gloss: A checkpoint along an audax route.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] 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.
Antonyms: defy
rebel
resist
obey
submit
Related words: regulate
Derived words: 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
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
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
DCV
self-control
1ANCP
1NCP
AACC
AACO
AADCCS
ABAC
ABC
ABCA
ABCCC
AC
ACA
ACC
access control
access control list
ACCH
ACE
ACL
active noise control
adaptive control
adaptive-control function
advanced train control system
AEC
AGC
air traffic control
ANC
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
breath control
C3CM
C3ISTAR
C4ISR
capital control
carriage control character
CC
CCP
CDC
cene
centralised traffic control
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-F
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 plane
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
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
inhibitory control
inversion of control
JCL
job control
knife control
LACC
LCBO
LCCN
Line of Actual Control
Line of Control
LLC
LOAC
LOC
locus of control
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
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
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