Definition of control

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Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..

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Comptroler :: Comptroler (n.) A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.
Patent :: Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines..
Tax :: Tax (n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject..
Comptrol :: Comptrol (n. & v.) See Control.
Free :: Free (superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master..
Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..
Commanding :: Commanding (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence..
Principal :: Principal (n.) A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant..
Controller :: Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts..
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..
Command :: Command (n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer..
Four-in-hand :: Four-in-hand (a.) Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-hand coach..
Master :: Master (n.) One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time..
Captivity :: Captivity (n.) A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage.
Dispose :: Dispose (n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
Subordinance :: Subordinacy (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason..
Controllableness :: Controllableness (n.) Capability of being controlled.
Rule :: Rule (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
Gad :: Gad (n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled..
Influence :: Influence (n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs..
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