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con⋅trol

  [kuhn-trohl] verb, -trolled, -trol⋅ling, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command.
2. to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions.
3. to test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison.
4. to eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire.
5. Obsolete. to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register.
–noun
6. the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command: Who's in control here?
7. the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another: The car is out of control.
8. check or restraint: Her anger is under control.
9. a legal or official means of regulation or restraint: to institute wage and price controls.
10. a standard of comparison in scientific experimentation.
11. 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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME co(u)ntrollen (v.) < AF contreroller to keep a duplicate account or roll, deriv. of contrerolle (n.). 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

Synonyms:
1. manage, govern, rule. 2. restrain, bridle, constrain. 6. management, government, reign, rule, mastery. See authority.
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Word Origin & History

control 
c.1310, "to check, verify, regulate," from Anglo-Norm. contreroller "exert authority," from M.L. contrarotulus "a counter, register," from L. contra- "against" + rotulus, dim. of rota "wheel" (see roll). From a medieval method of checking accounts by a duplicate register. Sense of "dominate, direct" is c.1450.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: con·trol
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: con·trolled; con·trol·ling
1 : to exercise restraining or directing influence over esp. by law
2 : to have power or authority over controls the outcome in this case>
3 : to have controlling interest in —control noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: 2control
Function: noun
1 : an act or instance of controlling something <control of acute intermittent porphyria>
2 : one that is used in controlling something: as a : an experiment in which the subjects are treated as in a parallel experiment except for omission of the procedureor agent under test and which is used as a standard of comparison in judging experimental effects called also control experiment b : one (as an organism, culture, or group) thatis part of a control
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control con·trol (kən-trōl')
v. con·trolled, con·trol·ling, con·trols

  1. To verify or regulate a scientific experiment by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.

  2. To hold in restraint; check.

n.

  1. A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment.

  2. An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a control experiment.

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