The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
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.
The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
One who controls something.
Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.
A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.