control vs hog

control

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • (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. 

hog

noun
  • 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) 

verb
  • 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. 

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