Air level () Spirit level. See Level. |
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 |
Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one |
Drive (v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them |
Drive (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward |
Drive (v. t.) To carry or |
Drive (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally |
Drive (v. t.) To pass away |
Drive (v. i.) To rush and press with violence |
Drive (v. i.) To be forced along |
Drive (v. i.) To go by carriage |
Drive (v. i.) To press forward |
Drive (v. i.) To distrain for rent. |
Drive (p. p.) Driven. |
Drive (n.) The act of driving |
Drive (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving |
Drive (n.) Violent or rapid motion |
Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven |
Full-drive (adv.) With full speed. |
Level (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular |
Level (n.) A horizontal line or plane |
Level (n.) An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth |
Level (n.) Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation. |
Level (n.) A uniform or average height |
Level (n.) An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line. |
Level (n.) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level |
Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine. |
Level (a.) Even |
Level (a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon |
Level (a.) Even with anything else |
Level (a.) Straightforward |
Level (a.) Well balanced |
Level (a.) Of even tone |
Level (v. t.) To make level |
Level (v. t.) To bring to a lower level |
Level (v. t.) To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun |
Level (v. t.) Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc. |
Level (v. t.) To adjust or adapt to a certain level |
Level (v. i.) To be level |
Level (v. i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally |
Sea level () The level of the surface of the sea |
Self-control (n.) Control of one's self |
Water level () The level formed by the surface of still water. |
Water level () A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n. |
capture gaining control seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
drive thrust driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
liner line drive | (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter, the batter hit a liner to the shortstop |
line-drive single line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
line-drive double line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
line-drive triple line triple | a triple resulting from a line drive |
drive-by killing | homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile |
drive-by shooting | shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim |
terrain flight low level flight | flight at very low altitudes |
drive ride | a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile), he took the family for a drive in his new car |
cattle drive | driving a bovine herd (as cows or bulls or steers) |
drive | the act of driving a herd of animals overland |
drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) |
forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
backhand drive | a hard straight return made on the backhand side |
drive driving | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver, he sliced his drive out of bounds |
inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
campaign cause crusade drive movement effort | a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end, he supported populist campaigns, they worked in the cause of world peace, the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant, the movement to end slavery, contributed to the war effort |
fundaising campaign fundaising drive fundaising effort | a campaign to raise money for some cause |
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) |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
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 |
Abney level | a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube, used to measure the angle of inclination of a line from the observer to the target |
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 |
automatic transmission automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
carpenter's level | a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it |
CD drive | a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system |
CD-ROM drive | a drive that is connected to a computer and on which a CD-ROM can be `played' |
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 |