From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [computer key] _See_ [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en] + [en], [en], diminutive of [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[++]
1. [en] To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
2. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=2011-03-01 |author=Phil McNulty |title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd
|work=w:BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/9405635.stm
|page= |passage=This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both
Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned
at how his side lost their way after imperiously CONTROLLING much of the first
period.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-05-17
|author=w:George Monbiot|title=Money just makes the rich suffer
|volume=188|issue=23|page=19 |magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly
|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/politics-envy-keenest-rich
|passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is
reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining
the ultra–wealthy and the companies they CONTROL are abandoned, and Edwardian
levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
1. [en] ( _construed with_ for ) To design (an experiment ) so that the effect s of one or more variables are reduce d or eliminate d.
2. [en] To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account .
3. [en] To call to account , to take to task , to challenge .
4. * [Hauke]
5. [en] To hold in check , to curb , to restrain .
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1956 | title=American Poultry Journal | volume=87 | page=32
|passage=Because only by the Capette Pellet method of hormonization can
growers be assured of CONTROLLED dosage and uniform results.}}
**** Antonyms
- [en] , [en] , [en] [not to be controlled]
- [en] , [en] [to be controlled]
**** Hyponyms
- [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|controllee |array controller |Attempto Controlled English
|autocontrolled |biocontrolling |CCB |CCN |CFC |climate-controlled |CNL
|controlee |controlled-access highway |controlled chaos |controlled explosion
|controlled flight into terrain |controlledly |controlledness |controlled
substance |controlled vocabulary |controller |controlling |controlling images
|controlling interest |controllingly |controllingness |controllable
|controllableness |controllability |controlment|currency control|foreign
exchange control |CR |DCV |decontrol |decontrolled |decontrolling
|enantiocontrolled |enantiocontrolling |hypercontrolled |incontrollable
|incontrollably |GCI |hypercontrolling |microcontrolled |mind controlled
|miscontrol |myocontrolled |NCO |neurocontrolled |noncontrollable
|noncontrolled |noncontrolling |overcontrol |paracontrolled |photocontrollable
|photocontrollability |price-controlled |radio-controlled |recontrol
|regiocontrolled |regiocontrolling |rent-controlled |self-control
|semicontrolled |servocontrolled |silicon-controlled rectifier
|stereocontrolling |supercontrolled |telecontrol |thermocontrolled
|thermocontroller |thought-controlled |uncontrol |uncontrollability
|uncontrollable |uncontrollableness |uncontrollably |uncontrolled
|uncontrolledness |uncontrolledly |uncontrolling |uncontrollingly
|undercontrolled |undercontroller |VCO |voluntary controlled school }}
**** Translations
[to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] (Do not confuse with [da] , which means to check and/or to verify)
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] (in modern usage also [nl] , though this is still considered an anglicism by many)
- Esperanto: [eo] (Do not confuse with [eo] , which means to check and/or to verify)
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [primarily “to check/verify”] [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to hold in check, to curb, to restrain]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to account for variables in an experiment]
- Spanish: [es] [no preposition]
[trans-bottom]
[_(archaic in English)_ to verify the accuracy of]
[_(obsolete in English)_ to call to account, to take to task, to challenge]
**** See also
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] An influence or authority over something.
2. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
3. Restraint or ability to contain one's movement s or emotions , or self-control .
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2012 | author=John Branch | title=Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek | newspaper=New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=SP_SNT_20130415#/?part=tunnel-creek
|passage=She had no CONTROL of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not
know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly
crashing wave.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-06-21 | author=w:Oliver Burkeman
|volume=189|issue=2|page=27|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=The tao of
tech (see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/10/conscious-computing-twitter-facebook-google)
|passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and
interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […],
or offering services that let you[...] "share the things you love with the
world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is
to be better than your rivals at undermining people's CONTROL of their own
attention.}}
1. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure .
2. [en] A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
3. A control group or control experiment .
4. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
5. * [1=en]
6. * [1=en]
7. * [1=en]
8. [en] An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
9. [en] Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
10. [en] A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See [control (linguistics)] .
11. [en] A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
12. * [passage="Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides, CONTROLS , psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential."]
13. [en] A checkpoint along an audax route .
14. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2019 | author=Emily Chappell | title=Where There's a Will
|passage=[...] the self-acknowledged stereotype of the audaxer as a socially
awkward middle-aged man, [...] carefully avoiding eye contact as a volunteer
serves him his cup of tea and plate of baked beans in one of the draughty
village halls that typically host audax CONTROLS.}}
**** Hyponyms
[en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|cene|controligarch |1ANCP| control bus|job control|parental
control|task control|time optimal control problem|time-varied gain control|
sea control ship |1NCP|control column|timestamp-based concurrency control
|AACC |AACO|reservoir control|target control|thought control |AADCCS|control
flow|impulse control disorder |ABAC|control-flow graph |ABC| message control
|ABCA|control wheel |ABCCC |AC|body control module|capital control|reaction
control system |ACA |ACC |access control |access control list|cognitive
control|executive control |ACCH |ACE |ACL|animal control officer|coercive
control|control freakery|control grid|feature control frame|numerical
control|perceptual control theory|spin control |adaptive control
|adaptive-control function |advanced train control system |AEC |AGC |air
traffic control |anticontrol |area control center |arms control |ARTCC |ASQC
|ATC |automatic distance control |automatic train control |authority control
|AWACS |BCD |BCP |biocontrol |biological control |birth control |birth control
glasses |board of control |border control |C3CM |C3ISTAR |C4ISR |carriage
control character |CC |CCP |CDC |CHOP |clan control |climate control |CMG |CNC
|command and control |compound control |control arm |control briefs |control
car |control character |control chart |control city |control code |control
coupling |control engineering |control experiment |control freak |control
function |control gene |control group |control joint |control key |control
knickers |controlless |controllessness |control mechanism |control number
|control of conception |Contrology |control order |control pad |control panel
|control pants |control point |control rod |control room |control stick
|control structure |control surface |control theory |control tower |control
unit |control variable |control verb |COSHH |CP/M |crawl control |crowd
control |crowd control barrier |cruise control |CTC |Ctrl-Alt-Delete |CWS |DAC
|DACL |damage control |DCL |DCS |DCV |diastereocontrol |DNC |DPCCH |DVCS |dual
control |dyscontrol |ECB |ECC |ECDC |ECLSS |ECM |ECTS |edge control
|electronic stability control |enantiocontrol |ESC |ETCS |FAC |face control
|FACP |FCB |FCT |FCV |feedforward control |flight control |flow control
|ground control |GCP |GFC |gun control |HACCP |HDLC |HQC |HS-SCCH |ICMP |ILPC
|in control |inversion of control |JCL |knife control |LACC |LCBO |LCCN |Line
of Actual Control |Line of Control |LLC |LOAC |LOC |lose control |MAC |MAC
address |macrocontrol |MCO |MCU |MGCC |milieu control |mind control |MOCC
|movement control order |MVCC |myocontrol |NAFDAC |NCB |object-control |OLPC
|OCC |OCCB |OCN |OFAC |Open Sound Control |out of control |PCA |PCB |PCM |PDC
|pest control |photocontrol |portion control |positive control |price control
|procontrol |PTC |pussy control |QAC |QA/QC |QCU |quality control |radio
control |RBAC |RCS |regiocontrol |rent control |RTC |SCADA |SDLC |self-control
|servocontrol |slow speed control |SMC |social control |source control |span
of control |statistical process control |stereocontrol |stock control
|subcontrol |subject-control |superintending control |tab control |tactical
air control center |take control |tank controls |TCA |TCC |TCP/IP |TCS |TCU
|terminal control area |time control |TPC |TRACON |Transmission Control
Protocol |TSCA |TVC |UAC |under control |user control |VCPI |VCS |VCU |version
control |vibration control |VISCMA |VTC |WWMCCS |XACML |control booth|control
brief|control center|control centre|ground control point}}
**** Translations
[influence or authority over something]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [primarily “checking”] [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Portugal] , [pt] [Brazil]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[the method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine
or system, such as a lever, handle or button]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [the tool itself] [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Latin: [la]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[a security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack,
reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[project management: a means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention
in, activities that are not going according to plan] [trans-bottom]
[a control group or control experiment]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[a duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another
account or register] [trans-bottom]
[graphical user interface: an interface element that a computer user interacts
with, such as a window or a text box]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latin: [la]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
[climatology: any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place]
[trans-bottom]
[linguistics: a construction in which the understood subject of a given
predicate is determined by an expression in context] [trans-bottom]
[spiritualism, parapsychology: a spirit that takes possession of a psychic or
medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living] [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Czech: [cs] ( _method and means_ )
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr]
- Hebrew: [he] (shlit'a) (1)
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Telugu: [te] (1)
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [pedia]
- [Control]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca]. [1917].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [ò]
- [ca]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
2. check , inspection
3. checkpoint
4. influence , authority
**** Derived terms
- [ca]
- [ca]
- [ca]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:ca:GDLC]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt]. The established pronunciation reflects a widespread mispronunciation of
the English word. [pt].
*** Pronunciation
[br=côntrol]
- [pt]
*** Noun
[m]
1. the [en] key on a computer keyboard
**** Derived terms
- [pt]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Pronunciation
- [ro]
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[pl=controale]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] , or running of a business
2. [en] of a machine
3. [en] or emotional restraint , self-control
4. [es] remote control
5. [es] controller , gamepad , joypad
6. [es] checkup
**** Derived terms
{{col|es |autocontrol |control de crucero adaptativo<t:adaptive cruise
control> |control remoto |control de la natalidad,control de natalidad
|control de realización |control de velocidad<t:cruise control> |control de
versiones |fuera de control |prima de control |puesto de control |salirse de
control<t:to get out of control> |torre de control }}
**** Related terms
[es]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]