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.
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.
To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
To set free a chemical substance.
To make available to the public.
To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
To free or liberate; to set free.
(of a call) To hang up.
To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
to come out; be out.
To discharge.
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
The act or manner of ending a sound.
In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
Orgasm.
A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
That which is released, untied or let go.
Liberation from pain or suffering.