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 |
Knob
(n.) A hard protuberance |
Knob
(n.) A knoblike ornament or handle |
Knob
(n.) A rounded hill or mountain |
Knob
(n.) See Knop. |
Knob
(v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches |
Self-control
(n.) Control of one's self |
Slide
(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling |
Slide
(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass inadvertently. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly |
Slide
(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. |
Slide
(v. t.) To cause to slide |
Slide
(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly |
Slide
(n.) The act of sliding |
Slide
(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress. |
Slide
(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down. |
Slide
(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement. |
Slide
(n.) That which operates by sliding. |
Slide
(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it. |
Slide
(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides. |
Slide
(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like. |
Slide
(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like |
Slide
(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side |
Slide
(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure. |
Slide
(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below. |
Slide
(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics. |
Slide
(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound. |
Slide
(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide. |
Slide
(n.) A slide valve. |
capture
gaining control
seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
| fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
slide
glide
coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| 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 |
chute
slide
slideway
sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
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 |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| knob | a round handle |
| knob boss | a circular rounded projection or protuberance |
| knob pommel | an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger |
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 |
pump action
slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
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 |
| slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
| slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide
sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |