Definitions for control

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control con·trol

Spelling: [kuh n-trohl]

IPA: /kənˈtroʊl/

Control is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in control (clnoort).

Definitions for control

noun

1. the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command:
2. the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another:
3. check or restraint:
4. a legal or official means of regulation or restraint:
5. Statistics. control variable (def 1).
6. a person who acts as a check; controller.
7. a device for regulating and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane.
8. controls, a coordinated arrangement of such devices.
9. prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable:
10. Baseball. the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently:
11. Philately. any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes.
12. a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance.
13. the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field.

Verb phrases

1. control for, Statistics. to account for (variables in an analysis) by limiting the data under consideration to a comparison of like things:

verb (used with object)

1. to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command:
2. to hold in check; curb:
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:
5. Obsolete. to check or regulate (transactions), originally by means of a duplicate register.

Origin of control

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-,

Examples for control

He seemed by all appearances perfectly happy to let the Republicans control the state senate.

A deal with the Rothschilds for control of the Spanish mines had fallen through.

So not only will the GOP have control in the Senate, it will move the center of gravity on Capitol Hill hard to starboard.

A society that had escaped from fear would escape from their control.

Aside from a blanket ban, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are nearly impossible to control.

To hear her thus named moved him to a rage almost beyond his control.

Law has been rebuilt in the last 50 years to be an instrument of control, not a framework for human responsibility.

The danger of the control of an ignorant electorate has therefore passed.

In the not too distant future, these young people will control billions of dollars.

The control of matter in putting it off and on at will, as He in His death and resurrection.