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Controlled

[kuhn-trohl]

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verb (used with object)

to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command.

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.

Obsolete. to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register.

noun

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.

10.

Statistics. control variable (def. 1).

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a person who acts as a check; controller.

12.

a device for regulating and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane.

13.

controls, a coordinated arrangement of such devices.

14.

prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable: rodent control.

15.

Baseball. the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently: The rookie pitcher has great power but no control.

16.

Philately. any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes.

17.

a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance.

18.

the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English co(u)ntrollen (v.) < Anglo-French contreroller to keep a duplicate account or roll, derivative of contrerolle (noun). See counter-, roll

Related forms

con·trol·la·ble, adjective, noun

con·trol·la·bil·i·ty, con·trol·la·ble·ness, noun

con·trol·la·bly, adverb

con·trol·less, adjective

con·trol·ling·ly, adverb

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non·con·trol·la·ble, adjective

non·con·trol·la·ble·ly, adverb

non·con·trolled, adjective

non·con·trol·ling, adjective

o·ver·con·trol, verb (used with object), -trolled, -trol·ling, noun

pre·con·trol, noun, verb (used with object), -trolled, -trol·ling.

qua·si-con·trolled, adjective

qua·si-con·trol·ling, adjective

sub·con·trol, verb (used with object), -trolled, -trol·ling.

su·per·con·trol, noun

un·con·trolled, adjective

un·con·trol·ling, adjective

well-con·trolled, adjective

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Synonyms
1. manage, govern, rule. 2. restrain, bridle, constrain. 6. management, government, reign, rule, mastery. See authority.

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Example Sentences

Muammar el-Qaddafi's former stronghold, much remained divided into fiefs, each controlled by quasi-independent brigades.

We traveled further and controlled more land in a few weeks than what has ever been achieved in military history.

They are tightly controlled by families, who have only a paltry stake in the companies at their base.

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Muammar el-Qaddafi's former stronghold, much remained divided into fiefs, each controlled by quasi-independent brigades.

We traveled further and controlled more land in a few weeks than what has ever been achieved in military history.

They are tightly controlled by families, who have only a paltry stake in the companies at their base.

Scientists have made a brain discovery that could help lead to thought- controlled machines.

Scheduling the mind-altering herb as a controlled substance could slow medical research.

When several great whites congregate, their dominance is expressed with body bumps and controlled biting.

Spread by creeping rhizomes and can be invasive if not controlled.

Critically, they can even be controlled in cells taken from mice that have been grown using reprogrammed cells.

The federal government considers anabolic steroids to be controlled substances.

Unless they are homeless, our students live in a existing climate controlled structure before they become our students.

Leases are open-ended and rent increases are controlled by a system pegging rents to those charged for comparable properties.

Biologists have controlled the coyote population, and the wolves are thriving.

Controlled breathing also boosted synchronization, though not to the extent of recitation.

Children are being smothered by virtual entertainment and controlled environments.

Fast drainage and controlled watering are keys to success.

Like its siblings, the hybrid is quiet at speed, and the firm ride is comfortable and controlled.

Robot drones, mine detectors and sensing devices are already common on the battlefield but are controlled by humans.

It was as controlled a process as traditional peer review.

Not as easy as with controlled experiments, but possible nonetheless.

There are sections of beach where one can swim with dolphins, but interactions with them are strictly controlled.

Also, subjects found poetry reading stimulating but controlled breathing.

Others had free access to areas controlled by absent landowners.

Scale insects and mites are controlled by dormant oil spray.

The defendant shall not unlawfully possess a controlled substance.

Maybe controlled fusion will at last emerge from decades of uncontrolled spending.

Getting people to speak naturally in a controlled study is hard.

It can be used for the controlled release of medicines and as a foundation for tissue rebuilding.

Researchers report that monkeys fed themselves using robotic arms controlled mentally.

Hundreds of people have tried to win this prize, all have failed when tested using a properly controlled scientific method.

The defendant shall refrain from any unlawful use of a controlled substance.

Salaries in the public universities are strictly controlled and are uniform.

Researchers are now devising ways to extract energy from magnesium in a more controlled fashion.

We place them in freezers, with temperature and relative humidity controlled.

Now a new controlled trial reveals more about how aerobic activity might be helping.

Their earnings seem to be employed more creatively for child development agendas than does money controlled by their husbands.

Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser.

In addition, the branches frequently have little autonomy from their home university and are tightly controlled from abroad.

Chinese visiting rights, however, are tightly controlled by the government.

But the disease has been controlled successfully before.

In a recent study, seven pairs of subjects controlled virtual avatars.

Life there was comfortable, yet carefully controlled.

Quadrocopters are flying machines which use four simple rotors controlled by computers.

Ultimately, they are controlled by the board of regents, and regents are politically nominated.

The mechanism is controlled by efflux transporter proteins embedded in cell membranes.

Every facet of the modern electrical grid is controlled by computers.

The third motor controlled the tilt of the two propellers.

It remains largely controlled by the individual department.

The easily redirected beams could send continuous pulses into clouds, diverting controlled lightning to safe targets.

First, when subjects form deontological judgments, emotional processes are said to override controlled cognitive processes.

Tuning is controlled by a rotary switch with three data pins.

The validity of such research must be controlled using a coding book of definition developed before the mining takes place.

They shift body weight subtly or adjust tails and limbs to steer a controlled flight path through the canopy.

And women with high scores were more than twice as likely to have tried controlled substances.

Volume is controlled by a potentiometer dial with five pins.

Also things are so controlled here in this immediate area that potential problems quickly addressed.

To test if this timing is controlled by an internal clock, the researchers exposed the chrysalids to total darkness.

However a remote controlled helicopter could easily accomplish the task.

He had a history of major depression that was controlled by meds.

The technique of controlled evolution combines stress and food to obtain a genetic transformation of a biological strain.

Despite all of the socio-economic and political ramifications that stems from laws re controlled substance, ie powder vs.

In contrast to the precisely controlled experiments described above, a typical driver does not operate under ideal conditions.

If you are only used to randomized controlled trials, it can be quite hard to understand qualitative methods.

It is also possible to infect someone with a radio controlled poison.

Rigor in a program is controlled by the faculty who are in general opposed to any innovations.

In this case, the gate consists of a physical barrier whose position is controlled by a farmer.

Controlled for inflation, their salaries were flat even as working conditions deteriorated.

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Word Origin & History

control

early 14c., "to check, verify, regulate," from Anglo-Norm. contreroller "exert authority," from M.L. contrarotulus "a counter, register," from L. contra- "against" (see contra) + rotulus, dim. of rota "wheel" (see roll). From a medieval method of

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checking accounts by a duplicate register. Sense of "dominate, direct" is c.1450. Related: Controllable (1570s); controlled (1580s; of rent, from c.1930); controlling (1520s). Control group in scientific experiments is attested from 1952 (from a sense of control attested since 1875). Control freak is late 1960s slang.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

control con·trol (kən-trōl')
v. con·trolled, con·trol·ling, con·trols

To verify or regulate a scientific experiment by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.
To hold in restraint; check.

A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment.
An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a control experiment.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

control

(kən-trōl') Pronunciation Key
A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment. In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug, for example, one group of subjects (the control group) receives an inactive substance or placebo , while a comparison group receives the drug being tested.

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