(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(3) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(4) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(5) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(7) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(8) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(9) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(13) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(15) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(16) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(17) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(18) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(19) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(20) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
Intemperate
Definition:
(a.) Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
(a.) Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
(1) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(2) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
(3) Fatal CHD, on the other hand, was strongly associated with registration for intemperance.
(4) Source: EUMETSAT The rain blame If the weather has turned intemperate, so has the argument about who is to blame.
(5) The targets of Karzai's often intemperate outbursts were equally frustrated, dubbing the president "feckless" and "unreliable", briefing that he was "paranoid" and possibly abusing prescription drugs.
(6) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
(7) The consequences of alcoholic intemperance and economic problems on CHD mortality and morbidity were studied among the participants in a large primary preventive trial.
(8) His friend, Samuel Johnson, was a Tory and, according to Boswell, regularly "attacked the Americans with intemperate violence of abuse".
(9) But in Barton's case, one wonders how much his intemperateness has been detrimental to his football and to his progression in the game.
(10) The association of condoms with sexual intemperance, along with concerns about their efficacy, helped to support the idea that abstinence was the only acceptable prophylaxis for sexually transmitted disease.
(11) "He is an immensely personable, warm man, although his language at times, on issues such as gay marriage, can be intemperate," she said.
(12) At the extremes of this debate we have seen at times language or actions that are intemperate.
(13) When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant.
(14) Subjects registered with the Board of Social Welfare were categorised with respect to increasing load of alcoholic intemperance.
(15) We've tried to conduct this debate in a sensible manner especially at a time when the economy's still pretty weak and for him to use such intemperate language really is unacceptable."
(16) When asked about the social media backlash from the public, Lee said: "I don't think you should judge the programme by the extreme reaction represented by a handful of very intemperate tweets."
(17) The quality of discourse will inevitably deteriorate and the intemperate trends we are already seeing in much of Europe will proliferate.
(18) A multivariate analysis was performed, controlling for smoking, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol, which showed that the association between intemperance and fatal CHD was independent of these factors.
(19) There has been intemperate and extreme comment from both sides on social media and in online commentary.
(20) One clue is in the stunning helicopter rescue performed by Simone Moro, Steck's climbing partner, whose intemperate language provoked the confrontation at Camp 2.