control meaning
EN
[kənˈtrəʊl] [kənˈt(ʃ)roʊl] 
US WControl
- Control may refer to:
- NounPLcontrolsPREcontro-
- (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over.
- The government has complete control over the situation.
- A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent.
- 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.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
- (climatology) 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.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over.
- VerbSGcontrolsPRcontrollingPT, PPcontrolled
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- On the other hand, reserpinised heart perfused with 1 μM ISO displayed a rapid response similar to that seen in control heart.
- The situation has fallen so far out of control to rightly be considered a massacree.
- Experimental bees were fed 500 μL of 30% sucrose control solution and a 6 mg lump of multifloral pollen (Koppert Biological Systems, Howell, Michigan) for two days.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- However, the study of Brody et al. did not include denicotinized mentholated cigarettes as a control.
- The ANOVA analysis did not reveal any differences (F 2,12 = 3.44, p = .066) between genotypes in the level of a nonamidated peptide [ …] that served as an internal control.
- Facilitated with the mRNA expression algorithm, we pursue to comprehensively investigate the molecular networks of dysregulation that could be subjected to microribonucleic acid (miRNA) control.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of control in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
- en controlled
- en controlling
- en controls
- en controller
- en controled
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "control" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb.