Definitions for controlled

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controlled con·trolled

Spelling: [kuh n-trohld]

IPA: /kənˈtroʊld/

Controlled is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 445 anagrams from letters in controlled (cdellnoort).

Definitions for controlled

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.

adjective

1. held in check; curbed:
2. carefully regulated, tested, or verified:
3. (of a drug) restricted by law as to possession and use:

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 controlled

1580-90 control + -ed²

Examples for controlled

But it also transformed a regional threat into a global enemy that was easier to target in the areas it controlled.

She almost choked, but, making a great effort, she controlled herself.

The former is controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the latter by the government of Israel.

When after a moment she rose, she was controlled again, calm, very white.

Her lip trembled a little, but she controlled it before she spoke.

And in informal talks, Chinese leaders have compared hackers on both sides to unruly children who can only barely be controlled.

Hamish controlled his emotion better than did the Rev. Mr. Pye.

Resolution is majority owned and controlled by Rio Tinto, a global mining conglomerate.

Then, he made a great effort, and controlled his emotion to some extent.

“Some tribes” have “requested guidance on the enforcement of the controlled Substances Act (CSA),” the opening reads.