(countable) A device used to operate an appliance (such as a television, vehicle, or mechanical toy) from a short distance away. / (uncountable) A means of operating a device from a distance.

Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception. / Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).

To assume control, to gain power over someone or something.

(law) The authority that a higher court has to issue an order specifically ordering a lower court to perform (or stop performing) a certain action

The ability to control one's desires and impulses; willpower.

To control oneself or itself.

The area inside a recording studio designed to facilitate the mixing of audio for studio recordings. / A room serving as the centre of monitoring a building, controlling an operation etc.

A mechanism in a system that monitors performance inputs rather than outputs, and reacts so as to maintain a specified state, thus preventing or minimising problems before they occur.

A flat, usually vertical surface onto which controls, instruments, and displays are mounted. / (by extension, graphical user interface) A computer display offering a number of controls or options.

(computing) A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.