To have control is to have the power to run something in an orderly way. A skillful teacher maintains control over students who might otherwise waste time or be disruptive.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Noun
the activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"
Noun
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc; "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"; "he had lost control of his sphincters"
Noun
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine; "the speed control on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
Noun
discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"
Noun
power to direct or determine; "under control"
Noun
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"
Noun
a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment; "the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw"
Noun
the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.; "they wanted to repeal all the legislation that imposed economic controls"
Noun
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
Noun
a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another; "measures for the control of disease"; "they instituted controls over drinking on campus"
Noun
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
Verb
have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of; "Do you control these data?"
Verb
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"
Verb
verify by using a duplicate register for comparison; "control an account"
Verb
handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
Verb
control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one''s advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn''t let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line"
Verb
exercise authoritative control or power over; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
Verb
lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
Verb
verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments; "Are you controlling for the temperature?"
n.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or
check another account or register; a counter register.
n.
That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
restraint.
n.
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or
regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should
be under parental control.
v. t.
To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to
prove by counter statements; to confute.
v. t.
To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to
check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to
overpower.
Control
The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration.
Control
This report was controlled to be false.2.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a scepter to control the world.
I feel my virtue struggling in my soul: But stronger passion does its power control.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Usage Examples
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
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Other Usage ExamplesA family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
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