Control Definition

kən-trōl

controlled, controlling, controls

verb

controlled, controlling, controls

To regulate (financial affairs)

Webster's New World

To exercise authority over; direct; command.

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To check or verify (payments, accounts, etc.) by comparison with a duplicate register.

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To operate or regulate.

This knob controls the volume of sound.

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To verify (an experiment) by comparison with a standard or by other experiments.

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noun

controls

The act or fact of controlling; power to direct or regulate; ability to use effectively.

Her control over her passions, the violinist's control of his vibrato.

Webster's New World

The condition of being directed or restrained; restraint.

The car went out of control.

Webster's New World

A means of controlling; check.

Wage and price controls.

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A set of such instruments.

American Heritage

A device used to adjust or control.

The volume control on an amplifier.

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Other Word Forms of Control

Singular:

control

Plural:

Middle English controllen from Anglo-Norman contreroller from Medieval Latin contrārotulāre to check by duplicate register from contrārotulus duplicate register Latin contrā- contra- Latin rotulus roll diminutive of rota wheel ret- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English conterrolle, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrarotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contra (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

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