control
An influence or authority over somethingAn influence or authority over something.
» The captain controls the whole ship.
Der Kapitän kontrolliert das ganze Schiff.
Капитан контролирует весь корабль.
Капитан управляет всем кораблём.
Капітан керує цілим кораблем.
Meaning
12 senses(countable, uncountable)An influence or authority over something.
The government has complete control over the situation.
Kontrolle
властьvlastʹ, контро́льkontrólʹ
вла́даvláda, контро́льkontrólʹ
(countable, uncountable)The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
Kontrollen, Regelung, Regeln
керува́нняkeruvánnja
(countable, uncountable)Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
(countable, uncountable)A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
(countable, uncountable)A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
(countable, uncountable)A control group or control experiment.
(countable, uncountable)A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
(countable, uncountable)An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
Kontrollelement, Steuerelement
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
(countable, uncountable)A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
(countable)A checkpoint along an audax route.
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- power to direct or determine
Examples
1750 sentencesThe captain controls the whole ship.
Капітан керує цілим кораблем.
ruКапитан контролирует весь корабль.
deDer Kapitän kontrolliert das ganze Schiff.
I have it completely under control.
У мене це повністю під контролем.
ruУ меня это полностью под контролем.
Tom couldn't control his anger anymore.
Том більше не міг контролювати лють.
deTom konnte seine Wut nicht mehr kontrollieren.
What happened was out of my control.
Те, що трапилось, було поза моїм контролем.
deWas geschah, war außerhalb meiner Kontrolle.
I thought we had that under control.
Я думав, що ми тримаємо це під контролем.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotuFrom Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulus (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).
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Forms
plural: controlsSynonyms
11 synonyms- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine:controller
- discipline in personal and social activities:restraint
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity:commandmastery
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment:control condition
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another:dominanceascendanceascendenceascendancyascendency
Word family
124 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- under control
- out of control
- control his anger
- everything under control
- the remote control
- can't control
- remote control
- try to control
- to control his
- couldn't control his
- control his emotions
- a control freak