Control(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Control(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
Control(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
Control(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Control(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Controllability(n.) Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
Controllable(a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
Controllableness(n.) Capability of being controlled.
Controlled(imp. & p. p.) of Control
Controller(n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
Controller(n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
Controller(n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
Controlling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Control
Controlment(n.) The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
Controlment(n.) Opposition; resistance; hostility.
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