control

1. n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Source: opted

2. n. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. Source: opted

3. n. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control. Source: opted

4. v. t. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. Source: opted

5. v. t. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower. Source: opted

6. n. power to direct or determine Source: wordnet

7. n. a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another Source: wordnet

8. n. (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc Source: wordnet

9. n. a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment Source: wordnet

10. n. the activity of managing or exerting control over something Source: wordnet

11. n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another Source: wordnet

12. n. discipline in personal and social activities Source: wordnet

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