control

Borrowed from French contrôle. First attested in 1917.


control

With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

(transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

(transitive, archaic) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.

I fortuned to come in,
Thys rebell to behold,
Whereof I hym controld;
But he sayde that he wolde
Agaynst my mynde and wyll
In my church hawke styll.

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 94–99:

(transitive, obsolete) To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.

(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.

en-verb

control (third-person singular simple present controls, present participle controlling, simple past and past participle controlled)

controls (present singular third-person)
controlling (participle present)
controlled (participle past)
controlled (past)

سَيْطَرَ

to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of

styre (Do not confuse with kontrollere, which means to check and/or to verify)

beheersen

in modern usage also controleren, though this is still considered an anglicism by many

regi (Do not confuse with kontroli, which means to check and/or to verify)

From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“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”).


control

The government has complete control over the situation.

(countable, uncountable) An 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.

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.

2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

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

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

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

“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.”

2006, Henry Lunt, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, page 297:

"Make sure you enter the total of any credit balances in the sales ledger into the Sales Ledger Control Account and the total of any debit balances in the purchase ledger into the Purchase Ledger Control Account."

2012, Harold Randall, David Hopkins, Cambridge International AS and A Level Accounting Textbook, page 78:

“Wages Control Account: This account records wage transactions in aggregate. Postings are made from wage analysis sheet. This account is debited with gross wages (paid and accrued) and is closed by transfer of direct wages to work-in-progress and indirect wages to factory, administration and selling and distribution overheads control accounts as illustrated below:”

2012, Aurora M.N., A textbook of Cost and Management Accounting, 10th Edition, page 12-3:

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

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

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

(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.

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

"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."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

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

[…] 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.

2019, Emily Chappell, Where There's a Will:

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

en-noun

control (countable and uncountable, plural controls)

নিয়ন্ত্রণ

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

сдъ́ржаност

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

contramesura

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

fenestraĵo

graphical user interface: an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box


control

Unadapted borrowing from English control. The established pronunciation reflects a widespread mispronunciation of the English word. Doublet of controle and controlo.


control

controale (plural)
control (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un control (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
controlul (accusative definite nominative singular)
controale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște controale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
controalele (accusative definite nominative plural)
control (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui control (dative genitive indefinite singular)
controlului (dative definite genitive singular)
controale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor controale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
controalelor (dative definite genitive plural)
controlule (singular vocative)
controalelor (plural vocative)


control

control or emotional restraint, self-control

(video games, Latin America) controller, gamepad, joypad