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 |
Granite State () New Hampshire |
Half-port (n.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole. |
Port (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. |
Port (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms |
Port (v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. |
Port (n.) A passageway |
Port (n.) An opening in the side of a vessel |
Port (n.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine |
Port (v. t.) To carry |
Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder |
Port (n.) The manner in which a person bears himself |
Port (n.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow) |
Port (v. t.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship |
Port-royalist (n.) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist. |
Self-control (n.) Control of one's self |
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
State (n.) Rank |
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur |
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity |
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais |
State (n.) Estate, possession. |
State (n.) A person of high rank. |
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character |
State (n.) The principal persons in a government. |
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country |
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. |
State (n.) A political body, or body politic |
State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. |
State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease |
State (a.) Stately. |
State (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic |
State (v. t.) To set |
State (v. t.) To express the particulars of |
State (n.) A statement |
state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
capture gaining control seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
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) |
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 |
Port Arthur | a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (), Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese |
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 |
carport car port | garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
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 |
cruise control | control mechanism for keeping an automobile at a set speed |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
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 |
interface port | (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) |
larboard port | the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose |