Vocabulary : Control to Controversal

Control : A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. ;; That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. ;; Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control. ;; To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. ;; To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower. ;; The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight; ;; the mechanism controlling the rudders and ailerons. ;; Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, 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.
Controllability : Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
Controllable : Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
Controllableness : Capability of being controlled.
Controlled : of Control

Controller : One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. ;; An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. ;; An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. ;; Any electric device for controlling a circuit or system; ;; An electromagnet, excited by the main current, for throwing a regulator magnet into or out of circuit in an automatic device for constant current regulation. ;; A kind of multiple switch for gradually admitting the current to, or shutting it off from, an electric motor; as, a car controller for an electric railway car. ;; A lever controlling the speed of an engine; -- applied esp. to the lever governing a throttle valve, as of a steam or gasoline engine, esp. on an automobile.
Controllership : The office of a controller.
Controlling : of Control
Controlment : The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. ;; Opposition; resistance; hostility.
Controversal : Turning or looking opposite ways. ;; Controversial.

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