Controlling

Definition: Controlling

Controlling

Adjective

1. Able to control or determine policy; "a controlling interest in the firm".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "controlling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Economics

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Synonym: Controlling

Crosswords: Controlling

I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.)

Anyone who thinks controlling people is a science is dead wrong. (Profit; writing credit: John McNamara)

Controlling my mind and my soul. (Night Fever; performing artist: The Bee Gees)

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References

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Professional, Scientific and Controlling Instruments Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Professional, Scientific and Controlling Instruments in Oceana (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Measuring & Controlling Devices: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Measuring, Controlling and Scientific Instruments in United Kingdom (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Measuring & Controlling Devices: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Indoor Allergens: Assessing and Controlling Adverse Health Effects (Committee on the Health Effects of Indoor Allergens, Division of Health promotion (reference)

• 5-HTP: The Serotonin Connection: The Exciting New Approach to Overcoming Depression, Reducing Anxiety, and Controlling Your Appetite (reference)

• Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 7th Edition (reference)

• Bellaire Guide to Controlling TV Commercial Cost (reference)

• Breathe In, Breathe Out: Inhale Energy and Exhale Stress by Guiding and Controlling Your Breathing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Productivity Report - Controlling Company All Mines (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Health Talks at The Cleveland Clinic Presents - Controlling Headache Pain: What You and Your Doctor Can Do (reference)

• Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely (reference)

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Music

• Controlling Me [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

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Deck personnel controlling an oceanographic buoy as it is deployed from the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Three-sixteenths-inch-long Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (14-spot) lady beetles look for aphids on a fava bean leaf. Scientists think the beetles might be helpful in controlling Russian wheat aphids that now infest 17 Great Plains and Western states. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Chicago drainage canal and controlling works, Lockport, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Treatments are presently aimed at controlling symptoms. (references)

Preventing or controlling gum disease depends on teamwork. (references)

The general treatment course is aimed at controlling symptoms. (references)

Business

It will ensure that business plays its part in controlling carbon emissions. (references)

The Sick Funds are responsible for monitoring and controlling the issuing and dispensing of prescriptions. (references)

Several years ago the French company Comptoir des Parfumes acquired a controlling stake in the enterprise. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkmenistan

These documents are used primarily as a form of identification, rather than as a means of controlling movement. (references)

Cuba

The document allegedly suggested that the Party take corrective measures, for example, by controlling the distribution of medicines. (references)

Mali

The Superior Council of Communication's (CSC) primary function is to regulate the media, both protecting and controlling journalists. (references)

Economic History

India

RBI and FIPB clearances are required to acquire a controlling interest in Indian companies. (references)

Sweden

If ranked based on the controlling company's homeland the U.S. would be the largest investor. (references)

Brazil

MCI, the only U.S. firm to win a bid in the privatization process, obtained a controlling stake in Embratel. (references)

Human Rights

Thailand

They also used heavy leg irons as a means of controlling and punishing prisoners. (references)

Brazil

The Government also noted that the Constitution prevents the Federal Government from controlling the actions of state governments and police authorities. (references)

Russia

Soldiers often do not report hazing to either unit officers or military procurators due to fear of reprisals, since officers in some cases reportedly tolerate or even encourage such hazing as a means of controlling their units. (references)

Political Economy

Haiti

The country has a market-based economy with state enterprises controlling utilities. (references)

KUWAIT

Despite government protections, some sponsors continue to hold their servants' passports as a means of controlling their movement. (references)

GHANA

However, the BOG dominates the Interbank Market by controlling the supply of large amount of surrendered proceeds from gold and cocoa. (references)

Political Rights

Angola

The Council can enact decree-laws, decrees, and resolutions, thereby controlling most functions normally associated with the legislative branch. (references)

Togo

Aside from controlling its own programs and activities and writing amendments to the Constitution, the National Assembly largely approves the proposals of the President and the Government. (references)

Jamaica

These problems persisted in the December 1997 election, despite the best efforts of the security forces, which were credited with controlling violence such as the beating of voters, and reducing election malpractice such as the theft of ballot boxes from polling places. (references)

Trade

Moldova

There are several banks in which controlling stakes are owned by foreigners. (references)

Singapore

The exchange rate is the MAS' most important tool for controlling inflation. (references)

Qatar

In Qatar, the letter of credit (L/C) is the most common instrument for controlling exports and imports. (references)

Travel

Croatia

Thus price and technology may not be controlling factors in the decision process if experience with one supplier has been satisfactory over a period of time. (references)

Worker Rights

Spain

The law gives unions a role in controlling temporary work contracts to prevent the abuse of such contracts and of termination actions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "controlling": controlling company ♦ controlling interest ♦ controlling shareholder. Additional references.

Ending with "controlling": all-controlling, behaviour-controlling, cost-controlling, crime-controlling, force-controlling, growth-controlling, information-controlling, land-controlling, mood-controlling, pain-controlling, pattern-controlling, pest-controlling, resource-controlling, self-controlling, women-controlling.

Arabic 

‏مهيمن (dominant, predominant), ‏مسيطر (commanding, dominant, governing, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, ruler, ruling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

контролинг. (various references)

Chinese 

控制 (Bossed, Bossing, Conn, control, Controlled, controlS). (various references)

Danish

ved at paavirke hejseudstyret med et spil,kan boreformanden aendre den vaegt,hvormed de tungeste boreroer,de saakaldte vaegtroer,der er anbragt lige over borekronen,belaster denne (the driller can vary the weight applied to the bit by the drill collars(heavy pipe run immediately above the bit)by operating the winch controlling the block and tackle), udclipsnings-kontrolanordning (device for controlling unclipping an exit), naar foerst boringerne er tilendebragt og afproevet,saettes produktionsforingsroeret helt ned i bunden og derefter tildaekkes borehullet med en boretop,det saakaldte juletrae,der er et saet ventiler beregnet til at kontrollere produktionen (an assembly of valves for controlling the rate of production, and the well is then capped with a flow head called a Christmas tree, once the well has been drilled and tested, the tubing is run into it), majoritetsinteresser (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), lovgivning,som griber ind i de frie markedskræfter (legislation aimed at controlling markets), kontrollerende indflydelse (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), kontrollerende aktiepost (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), kemisk korrosionsbeskyttelsesmiddel (corrosion control chemical, corrosion controlling chemical), aktiemajoritet (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding). (various references)

Dutch

meerderheidsparticipatie (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), meerderheidsdeelneming (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority participation, majority shareholding), meerderheidsbelang (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), marktsturende wetgeving (legislation aimed at controlling markets), door met behulp van een boorkraan het takelsysteem te regelen kan de boormeester het gewicht veranderen dat op de beitel wordt uitgeoefend door de vlak hierboven aangebrachte extra zware boorpijpen,de z.g.zwaarstangen (the driller can vary the weight applied to the bit by the drill collars(heavy pipe run immediately above the bit)by operating the winch controlling the block and tackle). (various references)

Finnish

pihtikiinnityksen irrottamisen valvontalaite (device for controlling unclipping an exit). (various references)

French

contrôle du rendement, contrôle de rendement. (various references)

German

regelung (arrangement, automatic control, control, disposal, regulation, resolution, ruling, settlement, settling), beherrschend (dominant, governing, governmental, predominant, ruling), bändigung (harnessing, mastering, subduing, taming), aufsichts- (supervisory). (various references)

Greek 

μηχανισμός ελέγχου απελευθέρωσης από τα κλιπ στην έξοδο (device for controlling unclipping an exit), πλειοψηφική συμμετοχή (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), χημικό μέσο προστασίας από τη διάβρωση (corrosion control chemical, corrosion controlling chemical), χημικό αντιδιαβρωτικό μέσο (corrosion control chemical, corrosion controlling chemical), επιδρώντας,με τη βοήθεια ενός βαρούλκου,πάνω στο σύστημα του πολύσπαστου,ο γεωτρυπανιστής είναι σε θέση να διαφοροποιεί το βάρος που εφαρμ (the driller can vary the weight applied to the bit by the drill collars(heavy pipe run immediately above the bit)by operating the winch controlling the block and tackle), ελέγχουσα συμμετοχή (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), ελέγχουσα εταιρεία (controlling company). (various references)

Italian

regolatore (damper, regulator, ruler). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

管轄官庁 (competentauthorities, controlling office), �"�配力 (controlling power). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しはいりょく (controlling power), か�"かつか�"ちょう (competentauthorities, controlling office). (various references)

Korean 

통� � (control, controlS, regulating). (various references)

Manx

stiuree (directing, governing, guiding, steering). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontrollingcay

Portuguese

controlador da libertação das pinças na saída (device for controlling unclipping an exit), companhia controladora (controlling company), voz dominante (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), sociedade controladora (controlling company), produto químico pra controlo da corrosão (corrosion control chemical, corrosion controlling chemical), participação maioritária (controlling interest, majority holding, majority interest, majority shareholding), acionista controlador (controlling shareholder). (various references)

Russian 

управлять управление (governing). (various references)

Spanish

controlador (controller, inspector, supervisor), mayoritario (majority). (various references)

Swedish

kontrollerande. (various references)

Turkish

idare etme (guidance, husbandry, managing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "controlling": decontrolling, noncontrolling, overcontrolling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Controlling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contrlling, controling, Montmollin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: longicorn.

-3 letters: coloring, cotillon, crooning, tornillo, trolling.

-4 letters: cloning, control, cooling, corning, criollo, glonoin, locoing, looting, lorgnon, orcinol, rolling, rooting, tolling, tooling.

-5 letters: citron, cogito, coloni, coning, cooing, coring, cortin, coting, croton, gonion, intron, lictor, lintol, logion, looing, lotion, noting, notion, octroi, ronion, tiglon, toling, toning, trigon, trogon.

+2 letters: decontrolling.

+3 letters: noncontrolling.

+4 letters: overcontrolling.

+5 letters: roentgenological.