Thesaurus: control

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1. n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
2. n. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
3. n. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
4. v. t. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
5. v. t. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
6. n. power to direct or determine
7. n. a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
8. n. (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
9. n. a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
10. n. the activity of managing or exerting control over something
11. n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
12. n. discipline in personal and social activities