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controllable

/kuhn-trohl/US // kənˈtroʊl //UK // (kənˈtrəʊl) //

可控制的,可控,可控制,可以控制

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v.有主动词 verb
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    con·trolled, con·trol·ling.

    • : to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate: command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds.That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
    • : to hold in check; curb: to control a horse;to control one's emotions.
    • : to test or verify by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison.
    • : to eliminate or prevent the flourishing or spread of: to control a forest fire.
    • : Obsolete. to check or regulate, originally by means of a duplicate register.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or power of controlling; regulation; domination or command: Who's in control here?
    • : the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another: The car is out of control.
    • : check or restraint: Her anger is under control.
    • : a legal or official means of regulation or restraint: to institute wage and price controls.
    • : Statistics. control variable.
    • : a person who acts as a check; controller.
    • : a device for regulating and guiding a machine, as a motor or airplane.
    • : controls, a coordinated arrangement of such devices.
    • : prevention of the flourishing or spread of something undesirable: rodent control.
    • : Baseball. the ability of a pitcher to throw the ball into the strike zone consistently: The rookie pitcher has great power but no control.
    • : Philately. any device printed on a postage or revenue stamp to authenticate it as a government issue or to identify it for bookkeeping purposes.
    • : a spiritual agency believed to assist a medium at a séance.
    • : the supervisor to whom an espionage agent reports when in the field.
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    • : control for, Statistics. to account for by limiting the data under consideration to a comparison of like things: to control for demographic factors.

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Examples

  • As predicted, the Democrats were able to maintain control of the House of Representatives, but control of the Senate remains unknown.

  • Operators monitor the facility from a control room filled with screens.

  • It’s been widely reported that Terra Lawson-Remer’s win helped flip control of the Board of Supervisors to Democrats, and Esther Sanchez’s win in Oceanside also gives Dems control of a seat long held by GOP leaders.

  • Across these benchmarks, zero states fare well on all three metrics, suggesting no state has its outbreak under control right now.

  • Once the conservatorship is in place, the conservator assumes final control over the subject’s decisions, which is where Spears is now.

  • Weather is one of least controllable, and predictable, elements in our lives.

  • For one thing, the true criminals of Group One are not readily controllable.

  • It's not controllable enough and uranium isn't something we could carry by the ton.

  • He kissed her cheek, and departed in great misery, which was several hours in lessening itself to a controllable level.

  • Infant mortality is controllable through the training of the mother and nurse.

  • With our present facilities in pictorial art, the geographical element in the idea of country seems controllable.