Influence or authority over something.
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).
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.
(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop
A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
A young sheep that has not been shorn.
A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
A quahog (clam)
To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.