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 |
Hall-mark (n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively |
Mark (n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque. |
Mark (n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc. |
Mark (n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money |
Mark (n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything |
Mark (n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made |
Mark (n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. |
Mark (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc. |
Mark (n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign |
Mark (n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence |
Mark (n.) That toward which a missile is directed |
Mark (n.) Attention, regard, or respect. |
Mark (n.) Limit or standard of action or fact |
Mark (n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. |
Mark (n.) Preeminence |
Mark (n.) A characteristic or essential attribute |
Mark (n.) A number or other character used in registring |
Mark (n.) Image |
Mark (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." |
Mark (v. t.) To put a mark upon |
Mark (v. t.) To be a mark upon |
Mark (v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action |
Mark (v. t.) To keep account of |
Mark (v. t.) To notice or observe |
Mark (v. i.) To take particular notice |
Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law |
Re-mark (v. t.) To mark again, or a second time |
Self-control (n.) Control of one's self |
Trade-mark (n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. |
bell ringer bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
shoulder board shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
stick control stick joystick | a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane |
mark | the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember, it was in London that he made his mark, he left an indelible mark on the American theater |
stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
crisscross cross mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
chatter mark | a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece |
scratch scrape scar mark | an indication of damage |
burn burn mark | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) |
strawberry strawberry mark hemangioma simplex | a soft red birthmark |