control
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
control (controls, present participle controlling; past and past participle controlled)
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- Synonyms: besteer, bewield, manage, puppeteer, rule
- With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
- French: contrôler
- German: steuern, kontrollieren, regeln
- Italian: controllare, influenzare, dirigere
- Portuguese: controlar
- Russian: управля́ть
- Spanish: controlar
control
- (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
- The government has complete control over the situation.
- A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- 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.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
- Synonyms: widget
- (climatology) 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.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control (linguistics).
- French: maîtrise
- German: Kontrolle
- Italian: controllo, comando, autorità
- Portuguese: controlo (Portugal), controle (Brazil)
- Russian: власть
- Spanish: administración, control, dirección, manejo, organización
- French: de contrôle, groupe témoin
- German: Kontrollgruppe
- Italian: di controllo
- Portuguese: controlo (Portugal), controle (Brazil)
- Russian: контро́льная гру́ппа
- Spanish: patrón de comparación, de control
- Spanish: contramedida
- Spanish: control, autodominio
- German: Kontrollelement, Steuerelement
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