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) |
| 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 |
| freshwater bass | North American food and game fish |
rock bass rock sunfish
Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
| black bass | widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) |
Kentucky black bass
spotted black bass
Micropterus pseudoplites | a variety of black bass |
smallmouth
smallmouth bass
smallmouthed bass
smallmouth black bass
smallmouthed black bass
Micropterus dolomieu | a variety of black bass, the angle of the jaw falls below the eye |
largemouth
largemouth bass
largemouthed bass
largemouth black bass
largemouthed black bass
Micropterus salmoides | a large black bass, the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye |
| bass | nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes |
yellow bass
Morone interrupta | North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass |
| sea bass | any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin |
blackmouth bass
Synagrops bellus | small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity |
rock sea bass
rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
black sea bass
black bass Centropistes striata | bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
striped bass
striper
Roccus saxatilis
rockfish | marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes, migrates upriver to spawn, sometimes placed in the genus Morone |
stone bass
wreckfish
Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
red drum
channel bass
redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
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 |
| bass | the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments |
| bass clarinet | a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet |
bass drum
gran casa | a large drum with two heads, makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch |
bass fiddle
bass viol bull fiddle
double bass
contrabass
string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
| bass guitar | the guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch |
bass horn
sousaphone
tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument |
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 |