Coal-meter
(n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
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 |
Exposure
(n.) The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. |
Exposure
(n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare |
Exposure
(n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. |
Exposure
(n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. |
Lock step
() A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
-meter
() A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured |
Meter
(n.) One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. |
Meter
(n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. |
Meter
(n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. |
Meter
(n.) Alt. of Metre |
Self-control
(n.) Control of one's self |
Self-exposure
(n.) The act of exposing one's self |
Step
(a.) To move the foot in walking |
Step
(a.) To walk |
Step
(a.) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. |
Step
(a.) Fig.: To move mentally |
Step
(v. t.) To set, as the foot. |
Step
(v. t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step |
Step
(v. i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot |
Step
(v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder. |
Step
(v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running |
Step
(v. i.) A small space or distance |
Step
(v. i.) A print of the foot |
Step
(v. i.) Gait |
Step
(v. i.) Proceeding |
Step
(v. i.) Walk |
Step
(v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position. |
Step
(v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft |
Step
(v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs. |
Step
(v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves. |
Step
(v. i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale. |
Step
(v. i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation. |
Step-
() A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent |
Water meter
() A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main. |
capture
gaining control
seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
| exposure | the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience, she denounced the exposure of children to pornography |
| measure step | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal, the situation called for strong measures, the police took steps to reduce crime |
| exposure | abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open) |
first step
initiative
opening move
opening | the first of a series of actions |
| step | the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down, he walked with unsteady steps |
| goose step | a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high |
decrease
diminution
reduction
step-down | the act of decreasing or reducing something |
increase
step-up | the act of increasing something, he gave me an increase in salary |
| exposure | presentation to view in an open or public manner, the exposure of his anger was shocking |
step dancing
hoofing | dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures |
dance step
step | a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance, he taught them the waltz step |
| one-step | an early ballroom dance, precursor to the fox-trot |
| two-step | a ballroom dance in duple meter, marked by sliding steps |
| inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
| exposure therapy | a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation |
indecent exposure
public nudity | vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place |
| 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) |
| exposure | the act of exposing film to light |
| time exposure | exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second) |
| reading meter reading | the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments, he has a job meter reading for the gas company |
| 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 |
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 |