(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.
Turnstile
Definition:
(n.) A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
(n.) A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The turnstiles had been abandoned and you didn't even need a ticket, and there was rubble lying around everywhere.
(2) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
(3) The company behind Alton Towers theme park, where 16 people were injured in a rollercoaster crash last month , has warned its annual profits are expected to be £26m lower than anticipated because fewer families have been arriving at turnstiles since the start of the peak summer holiday period.
(4) I’d been to Charlton once when I was little and I had to crawl under the turnstiles.
(5) For the $500,000 would not exist were it not for the pandas, consummate fundraisers capable of turning turnstiles at a terrific rate, shifting vast quantities of merchandise and attracting new money for conservation from sponsors keen to be seen in a benevolent light.
(6) Suddenly, the turnstiles opened, the pre-match music began and players were finally allowed on to the pitch to warm up ahead of a 4pm kick-off necessitated by the 45 minutes needed to filter spectators into their seats to watch Newcastle’s first win of the season as Leicester were beaten 1-0.
(7) Since its central station was designated a so-called refugee “turnstile” last September, more than 80,000 refugees have arrived in around 150 special trains via the Balkan route .
(8) At the station I went through the turnstile and stood on the platform until a train arrived.
(9) It’s all about him, this turnstile of people and cargo.
(10) The club argued that, like most professional teams, their count is different because it includes other entrances than the main turnstiles, as those entering via the official Fan Zone and those with premium tickets have a separate entryway.
(11) A statement issued inside the prison said: “Corridors and doorways leading from our landings into areas such as the canteen and yard have been replaced with obstacle courses of multiple turnstiles and steel doors.
(12) Going through the new turnstiles and emerging on to the track still cannot help but set off an internal soundtrack of Caliban’s Dream (the Underworld song that accompanied the lighting of the cauldron) and memories of Super Saturday and Usain Bolt .
(13) Shortly before the turnstiles were due to open for the planned 3pm kick-off against Leicester City it was noticed that the screen, pinned to a rather exposed glass and metal structure high in the north-east corner of the Leazes End, was flapping ominously in the gentle October breeze.
(14) His initiation to the old Victoria Ground was a working-class boy's classic epiphany, as JB Priestley famously described, of the turnstiles transporting him to "an altogether more splendid world".
(15) There was a near-crush in the ticket hall, only three turnstiles were working and the trains were sporadic.
(16) When Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, attended the first test event earlier this month, the domestic media focused on the uneven flooring, a broken lift, turnstiles that failed to work and walls still under construction.
(17) Turnstiles, for example, were originally used in agriculture as a form of stile, allowing ramblers and farmers to access fields while keeping the sheep and cows in.
(18) The decision had been taken to open the turnstiles later than usual before the kick-off and, with many more people than normal turning up to be a part of a historic occasion, there were worrying levels of congestion outside the stadium.
(19) In light of Bolton's free buses the away support was flimsy but Megson last week praised price reductions at the Reebok "to help get people through the turnstiles".
(20) West Ham say there were technical issues with a number of turnstiles which led them to fail to open at the designated time of 6.15pm, specifically those adjacent to the media entrance just behind Green Street, but that virtually all of the gates did open at 6.15pm.