Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register |
Control (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder |
Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain |
Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account |
Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over |
Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin. |
Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc. |
Plaster (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar. |
Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc. |
Plaster (v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore. |
Plaster (v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house. |
Plaster (v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over |
Re-sound (v. t. & i.) To sound again or anew. |
Self-control (n.) Control of one's self |
Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish |
Sound (n.) A cuttlefish. |
Sound (superl.) Whole |
Sound (superl.) Healthy |
Sound (superl.) Firm |
Sound (superl.) Free from error |
Sound (superl.) Founded in truth or right |
Sound (superl.) heavy |
Sound (superl.) Undisturbed |
Sound (superl.) Founded in law |
Sound (adv.) Soundly. |
Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island |
Sound (v. t.) To measure the depth of |
Sound (v. t.) Fig.: To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person) |
Sound (v. t.) To explore, as the bladder or urethra, with a sound |
Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. |
Sound (n.) Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture. |
Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear |
Sound (n.) The occasion of sound |
Sound (n.) Noise without signification |
Sound (v. i.) To make a noise |
Sound (v. i.) To be conveyed in sound |
Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard |
Sound (v. t.) To causse to make a noise |
Sound (v. t.) To cause to exit as a sound |
Sound (v. t.) To order, direct, indicate, or proclain by a sound, or sounds |
Sound (v. t.) To celebrate or honor by sounds |
Sound (v. t.) To examine the condition of (anything) by causing the same to emit sounds and noting their character |
Sound (v. t.) To signify |
Sound-board (n.) A sounding-board. |
capture gaining control seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |
damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
gun control | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns |
internal control | an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc. |
management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
arms control | a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country |
riot control riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc, the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired, he had lost control of his sphincters |
motor control | control of muscles |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control rhythm method rhythm calendar method of birth control calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
sound ranging | locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions |
sound reproduction | the reproduction of sound |
traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
population control | control over the growth of population, a government program |
occupation military control | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
airfoil aerofoil control surface surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
audio system sound system | a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound |
cast plaster cast plaster bandage | bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal |
contraceptive preventive preventative contraceptive device prophylactic device birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
control controller | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine, the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly, I turned the controls over to her |
control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
control circuit negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
control key command key | (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters |
control panel instrument panel control board board panel | electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices, he checked the instrument panel, suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree |
control rod | a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction |
control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
control system | a system for controlling the operation of another system |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
court plaster | a plaster composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to dress superficial wounds |
cruise control | control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed |
fire control radar | naval radar that controls the delivery of fire on a military target |
fire control system | naval weaponry consisting of a system for controlling the delivery of fire on a military target |
grid control grid | an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube |
ground control | a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a groundontrolled approach to landing |
hi-fi high fidelity sound system | equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity |
mustard plaster sinapism | a plaster containing powdered black mustard, applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient |
pill birth control pill contraceptive pill oral contraceptive pill oral contraceptive anovulatory drug anovulant | a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception |
plaster adhesive plaster sticking plaster | adhesive tape used in dressing wounds |
plaster plasterwork | a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling), there were cracks in the plaster |
poultice cataplasm plaster | a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. |
remote control remote | a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance, he lost the remote for his TV |