control
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Is control a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.Examples: "With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck."; "This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period."; "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised."Synonyms: besteer, bewield, manage, puppeteer, ruletransitive
2. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.transitive
3. (transitive, archaic) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.archaictransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.Examples: "I fortuned to come in, Thys rebell to behold, Whereof I hym controld; But he sayde that he wolde Agaynst my mynde and wyll In my church hawke styll."obsoletetransitive
5. (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.Examples: "Because only by the Capette Pellet method of hormonization can growers be assured of controlled dosage and uniform results."transitive
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.Examples: "The government has complete control over the situation."countableuncountable
2. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.countableuncountable
3. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.Synonyms: widgetcountableuncountable
4. (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.countableuncountable
5. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.countableuncountable
6. (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.Examples: ""Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides, controls, psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential.""countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary