controle

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
   • With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.

   Synonyms:

   besteer, bewield, manage, puppeteer, rule, govern

2. (transitive) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
3. (archaic, transitive) To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
   • 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
5. (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
   • Because only by the Capette Pellet method of hormonization can growers be assured of controlled dosage and uniform results.1956, American Poultry Journal, volume 87, page 32

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