- to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate: command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds.That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- to hold in check; curb: to control a horse;to control one's emotions.
- to test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison.
- to eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire.
- (of an organism) to initiate an internal response to external stimuli.
- to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register.
- the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command: Who's in control here?
- the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another: The car is out of control.
- check or restraint: Her anger is under control.
- a legal or official means of regulation or restraint: to institute wage and price controls.
- control variable (def. 1).
- a person who acts as a check; controller.
- a device for regulating and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane.
- a coordinated arrangement of such devices.
- prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable: rodent control.
- an organism’s ability to initiate an internal response to external stimuli (distinguished from regulation).
- the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently: The rookie pitcher has great power but no control.
- any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes.
- a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance.
- the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field.
- to account for (variables in an analysis) by limiting the data under consideration to a comparison of like things: to control for demographic factors.
- to command, direct, or rule
- to check, limit, curb, or regulate; restrain
- to regulate or operate (a machine)
- to verify (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment in which the variable being investigated is held constant or is compared with a standard
- to regulate (financial affairs)
- to examine and verify (financial accounts)
- to restrict or regulate the authorized supply of (certain substances, such as drugs)
- power to direct or determine
- a means of regulation or restraint; curb; check
- a device or mechanism for operating a car, aircraft, etc
- a standard of comparison used in a statistical analysis or scientific experiment
- a device that regulates the operation of a machine. A dynamic control is one that incorporates a governor so that it responds to the output of the machine it regulates
- (as modifier)
- an agency believed to assist the medium in a séance
- a letter, or letter and number, printed on a sheet of postage stamps, indicating authenticity, date, and series of issue
- one of a number of checkpoints on a car rally, orienteering course, etc, where competitors check in and their time, performance, etc, is recorded
