controlling
控制,控制性,控制的,控制权
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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.
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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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We're committed to doing things to get everything under control so our student-athletes in the sport of football can get back to doing what they love to do, and that's playing this game.
He told her she needed birth control pills for a cyst the size of a toenail on her left ovary.
He tried to eject when he lost control of the jet but did so too late, Navy investigators have reportedly said.
Across the world, from Australia to Taiwan to Norway, countries have used tighter border controls, aggressive contact-tracing, and targeted lockdowns to drive down their infection rates.
Investigators said Toure was thrown from a vehicle in a single-car crash after the driver lost control of the vehicle.
But the answers to these questions go beyond merely controlling what children watch.
Controlling the corridor was essential to supporting deep operations elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan.
So who and what exactly are we protecting and controlling by the gun regulations we have and those being discussed?
In the late 1980s, Hawking began to grow close to his redheaded, controlling nurse, Elaine Mason.
Mary Williams filed an appeal to the IRS in tax court last year, blaming her “controlling, abusive” husband for the problem.
The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.
The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.
P is a pallet controlling the admission of air into the body of the pipe P1.
"It is some time since I read the play," returned Hartledon, controlling his temper under an assumption of indifference.
Likewise, he owned the stage line and franchise, controlling the only right of way by which a railroad could reach up the valley.