CONTROLS

Power to direct or determine

Example: "Under control"

• power  10
• powerfulness  20

• authorisation  16
• authority  15
• authorization  25
• dominance  14
• • potency  14
  • say-so
  • corporatism  17
  • hold  8
  • iron fist
  • rein  4
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A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another

Example: "Measures for the control of disease"

(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc

Example: "The timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"

• activity  16
• bodily function
• bodily process
• body process

• motor control

A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment

Example: "The control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw"

• control condition

The activity of managing or exerting control over something

Example: "The control of the mob by the police was admirable"

• activity  16

• repression  12
• crowd control
• damage control
• federalisation  18
• • federalization  27
  • flight control
  • flood control
  • imperialism  17
  • regulating  12
  • regulation  11
  • internal control
  • regularisation  15
  • regularization  24
  • regulation  11
  • ownership  17
  • possession  12
  • possession  12
  • power trip
  • riot control
  • riot control operation
  • grasping  12
  • prehension  15
  • seizing  17
  • taking hold
  • steerage  9
  • steering  9
  • direction  12
  • guidance  12
  • steering  9
  • self-control
  • self-denial
  • self-discipline
  • traffic control
  • price-fixing
  • restraint  9
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The state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Example: "Her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"

• ascendance  15
• ascendancy  18
• ascendence  15
• ascendency  18
• dominance  14

• condition  12
• status  6

• ascendant  12
• ascendent  12
• mastery  12
• supremacy  18
• • predominance  19
  • predomination  18
  • prepotency  19
  • dominion  11
  • rule  4
  • regulation  11
  • absolutism  14
  • despotism  14
  • tyranny  13
  • monopoly  15
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Discipline in personal and social activities

Example: "He was a model of polite restraint"

• restraint  9

• discipline  15

• self-restraint
• temperateness  17
• moderation  13
• temperance  16
• • inhibition  15
  • continence  14
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Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

Example: "A good command of french"

• command  14
• mastery  12

A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine

Example: "The speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"

• controller  12

• mechanism  18

• cruise control
• dial  5
• disk controller
• governor  12
• • regulator  10
  • handwheel  19
  • joystick  24
  • regulator  10
  • electric switch
  • electrical switch
  • switch  14
  • valve  11
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A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance

The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.

Example: "They wanted to repeal all the legislation that imposed economic controls"

• economic policy

• price control
• cap  7
• ceiling  10
• roof  7
• • base  6
  • floor  8
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