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45 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• control v. (Transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• control v. (Transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• control v. (Transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account)…
• control v. (Transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
• control v. (Transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
• control n. (Countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• control n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever…
• control n. Restraint or ability to contain one’s movements or emotions, or self-control.
• control n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve…
• control n. (Project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are…
• control n. A control group or control experiment.
• control n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• control n. (Graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
• control n. (Climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• control n. (Linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…
• control n. (Spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other…
• control n. (Cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • control n. Check, inspection.
  • control n. Checkpoint.
  • control n. Influence, authority.
• Catalan - Romanian
  • control n. Control.

— English words, defined in German —

• control S. Kontrolle.
• control S. Regelung, Steuerung.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• control w. Controleren, beheersen.

— English words, defined in French —

• control v. Diriger.
• control v. Maitriser, maîtriser.
• control n. Contrôle, vérification.
• control n. (Sport) Contrôle.
• control n. (De soi-même) Maîtrise (de soi).
• control n. (D’une voiture, d’une machine) Maîtrise, contrôle.
• control n. (Dans une expérience) Témoin.
• control n. (D’un pays, d’une organisation) Direction.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• control s. Control.
• control v. Controlar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• control s. Controle.
• control v. Controlar.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• control s. Controllo, dominio, autorità su qualcuno o qualcosa.
• control s. (Soprattutto al plurale), (meccanica) comandi, dispositivo di controllo (di un macchinario).
• control s. Controllo, sorveglianza.

— In Spanish —

• control s. El acto o el poder de dominar, dirigir, regular, comandar, controlar.
• control s. La situación de estar bajo el dominio, dirección, regulación…
• control s. Mecanismo legal o institucional de regulación o restricción.
• control s. Estandar de comparación en la experimentación científico.
• control s. Dispositivo o persona que controla.
• control s. Prevención del desarrollo, expansión o crecimiento de algo indeseado.

135 English words from 21 English definitions

ability account accuracy activities allows along and another any apparatus archaic are attack audax authority behavior book box call call␣to call␣to␣account can challenge check checkpoint climate Climatology computer construction construed contain control control␣experiment control␣group correct countable counter curb Cycling design determined determining dictate distribution duplicate effects element emotions especially exercise experiment factors financial for given governing Graphical group hold hold␣in in␣check influence inspection interacts interface intervention kept kept␣to latitude lever Linguistics machine management means mechanism medium method monitoring movements obsolete of␣a one other over parapsychology performance physical place policy possession predicate procedure Project Project␣management psychic reduce register resolve restrain Restraint risks route security self self␣control someone something so␣that spirit Spiritualism statistics subject such such␣as suggest system take takes take␣to take␣to␣task task text text␣box that the Transitive triggering uncountable understood user user␣interface verify which window with

15 English words from 24 foreign definitions

algo Control Dans del Direction legal machine organisation pays persona que regular soi Sport voiture

49 foreign words from 24 foreign definitions

acto autorità bajo beheersen científico comandar comandi comparación controla controlar contrôle Controleren controllo crecimiento desarrollo De␣soi-même dirección Diriger dirigir dispositivo dominar dominio estar expansión expérience indeseado institucional Kontrolle macchinario Maîtrise maîtriser Mecanismo meccanica même plurale poder Prevención qualcosa qualcuno Regelung restricción situación soi-même Soprattutto sorveglianza Steuerung Témoin une vérification

117 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

controls controled controlee controler control␣arm control␣car controlees controling control␣key controlled controllee controller Contrology control␣pad control␣rod control␣arms control␣cars control␣city control␣code control␣gene control␣keys controllees controllers controlless controlling controlment control␣pads control␣rods control␣room control␣unit control␣verb control␣booth control␣brief control␣chart control␣codes control␣freak control␣genes control␣group control␣joint controllable controllably controlledly controllings controlments control␣order control␣panel control␣point control␣rooms control␣stick control␣tower +67 words

133 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

decontrols biocontrols decontroled miscontrols subcontrols tab␣controls uncontroled anti-controls decontroling decontrolled dual␣controls overcontrols rent␣controls self-controls tank␣controls telecontrols time␣controls uncontrolled user␣controls decontrolling miscontrolled myocontrolled noncontrolled non-controlled photocontrols price␣controls servocontrols subcontroller uncontrolling access␣controls autocontrolled biocontrolling damage␣controls data␣controller fire␣controlman fire␣controlmen flight␣controls game␣controller incontrollable incontrollably miscontrolling noncontrolling overcontrolled overcontroller paracontrolled pest␣controller remote␣controls rent-controlled self-controlled semicontrolled +83 words

92 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

decontrol in␣control uncontrol biocontrol dyscontrol gun-control gun␣control miscontrol myocontrol procontrol pro-control subcontrol tab␣control anticontrol anti-control arms␣control clan␣control dual␣control edge␣control face␣control flow␣control lose␣control lost␣control mind␣control overcontrol pest␣control rent␣control self-control self␣control spin␣control take␣control telecontrol time␣control took␣control user␣control virocontrol birth␣control crawl␣control crowd␣control knife␣control loses␣control macrocontrol out␣of␣control photocontrol price␣control radio␣control regiocontrol servocontrol stock␣control taken␣control +42 words

17 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

con Con CON -con con- cont cont. contr contr. contro- NTR ntr. Ont ONT on't Ont. TRO

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

lor Lor NOC ort ORT RTN TNO

9 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Chorlton colorant controls controul cornloft countrol crotonyl North␣Col tricolon

7 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Colton contro- corton Corton croton Croton Lorton

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

contro-

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

controul countrol

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