English Dictionary

control

/kənˈtɹəʊl/

noun

(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something. / The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

The remote control for the TV is missing.

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.

The government has complete control over the situation.

意味（2）

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

意味（3）

Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

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.

意味（4）

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

意味（5）

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

意味（6）

A control group or control experiment.

意味（7）

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

The entries in the control accounts reflect respectively the effect of the transactions on the value of Korrinna company’s receivables (sales ledger control account) and payables (purchase ledger control account.

意味（8）

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.

意味（9）

(climatology) 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.

意味（10）

(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.

意味（11）

(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

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.

意味（12）

(cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.

[…] 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.