control
power to direct or determine
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,389 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,192 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- power to direct or determine under control
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another measures for the control of diseasethey instituted controls over drinking on campus
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc the timing and control of his movements were unimpairedhe had lost control of his sphincters
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment also: control condition the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something the control of the mob by the police was admirable
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another also: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
control in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The mind at such times is not under control.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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My thoughts obeyed me no longer--my will escaped my control.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Feelings over which I have no control, render it imperative that I should shoot somebody.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Mr. Yonowsky made no effort to control them, and Aaron Kastrinsky was not always there.
Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life · Myra Kelly · Chapter 1
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The guardianship might therefore avail little to frustrate Lucretia's indirect contamination, if not her positive control.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1