brake vs control

brake

verb
  • To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking. 

  • To pulverise with a harrow 

  • To operate (a) brake(s). 

  • To bruise and crush; to knead 

noun
  • A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.) 

  • Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc. 

  • That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. 

  • Any fern in the genus Pteris 

  • A type of torture instrument. 

  • An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. 

  • A tool used for breaking flax or hemp. 

  • A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ 

  • The handle of a pump. 

  • An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. 

  • A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag. 

  • A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc. 

  • A fern; bracken (Pteridium). 

  • An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. 

  • A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. 

  • A baker's kneading trough. 

  • A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ 

  • The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle 

  • A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him. 

control

verb
  • to hold in check, to curb, to restrain 

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

  • To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. 

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

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

  • Influence or authority over something. 

  • A control group or control experiment. 

  • A checkpoint along an audax route. 

  • A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living. 

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

  • 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. 

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