control
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~ check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard; "Are you controlling for the temperature?"
control
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~ maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line"
control
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~ exercise authoritative control or power over; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
control
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~ place under restrictions; limit access to by law; "this substance is controlled"; "that area is restricted to security personnel only"
control
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~ verify by using a duplicate register for comparison; "control an account"
control
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~ handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
controvert
— Verb
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~ prove to be false or incorrect
controvert
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~ be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"
contuse
— Verb
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~ injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee"
convalesce
— Verb
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~ get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"
convect
— Verb
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~ circulate hot air by convection
convene
— Verb
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~ meet formally; "The council convened last week"
convene
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~ call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium"
conventionalise
— Verb
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~ make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior"
conventionalize
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~ make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior"
conventionalize
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~ represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
converge
— Verb
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~ come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"
converge
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~ move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star"
converge
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~ be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"
converge
— Verb
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~ approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit