Definition of control
- n. - A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or
check another account or register; a counter register.
- n. - That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
restraint.
- n. - Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or
regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should
be under parental control.
- v. t. - To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to
prove by counter statements; to confute.
- v. t. - To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to
check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to
overpower.