What's the difference between control and ringmaster?

Control


Definition:

  • (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.

Ringmaster


Definition:

  • (n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surely only a misplaced sense of ego on the part of its ringmasters is stopping it.
  • (2) If he is to ensure that the pre-recorded programme does not become a circus, Dimbleby will need to give one of his most assured performances as a ringmaster.
  • (3) Queens Park Rangers ’ ringmaster Tony Fernandes has a dream.
  • (4) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
  • (5) Mel and Sue return as ringmasters of Bake Off tent Read more The programme “feels like a phenomenon that is still on the rise”, said Charlotte Moore, the controller of BBC1.
  • (6) The ringmaster closes the door behind her and lets out her breath, silently praying that she’ll be able to continue the fire-fighting until then.
  • (7) Another is his very theoretical bit part as supremely underinvolved ringmaster of both last Christmas's Jimmy Savile tribute show and the Newsnight investigation that might have exposed a serial child molester.
  • (8) Republican candidates attack media over tough debate questions Read more Some refused to play along, ignoring the question entirely, but two gave answers that revealed a disgust for a gladiatorial format which went far beyond the subsequent squabbling over whether the ringmasters were too brutal.
  • (9) Lodger, though recorded in Montreux and New York, used the same personnel as the previous two, with Eno once again acting as creative ringmaster.
  • (10) Four-letter pastings Channel 4 has three Comedy Roasts coming up from Wednesday with Forsyth, Sharon Osbourne and Chris Tarrant on the receiving end of four-letter pastings from the likes of Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Gok Wan, Barry Cryer, Alan Carr, Sir Elton John and Sir Terry Wogan (who says Tarrant is "tall, always drunk and nobody likes him"), with Jimmy Carr acting as ringmaster.
  • (11) Better known as Cilvaringz, he’s on stage at PS1, the Queens outpost of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, with his mentor, Wu producer and ringmaster RZA, and music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones .
  • (12) The ringmaster delves deep into her box of tricks for the remaining six minutes, trying desperately to allay the lady’s fears.
  • (13) Clifford admitted having extramarital affairs with four women, including a television dancer and a French model, and being the ringmaster of sex parties involving "good honest filth for adults old enough to know what they are doing".
  • (14) That was the question pondered by Russian state television’s ringmaster, Dmitry Kiselev , in a recent, heavily ideological weekly dispatch.
  • (15) Talk of a “vast conspiracy” between him and the PM’s office with Ede as “ringmaster” was nonsense, he told the New Zealand Herald.
  • (16) And somehow, as if by magic, the ringmasters know: the show must go on.
  • (17) He's the ringmaster of the nation's sexual scandals and the chief conduit by which we know what we know about the private lives of David Beckham, David Mellor, Jude Law and countless others.
  • (18) Filmed in a tent in the grounds of a Berkshire country house, Giedroyc and Perkins flit around like ringmasters serving up one innuendo after another as a dozen contestants attempt to impress the judges, national treasure Mary Berry and baking pin-up Paul Hollywood .
  • (19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
  • (20) The choice of Danny Boyle as ringmaster suggests a possible resolution of the great British dilemma.

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