(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.
Widget
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, you can't draw any conclusions at all about how many people in country Z use Widget A from that "market share" figure.
(2) moDays=5;moColourScheme="default";moFSSI=352793;moDomain="www.metoffice.gov.uk";moMapDisplay="side";moMapsRequired="Precip Rate LR";moTemperatureUnits="C";moSpeedUnits="M";moShowWind="true";moShowUV="true";moShowFeelsLike="true";moAllowUserLocation="true";moStartupLanguage="en";moSpecificHeight="0";moSpecificWidth="0"; This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office The Met Office forecasts continuing rain for the rest of the day over much of the north, persisting overnight and only easing at dawn when the front will move off, leaving a trail of scattered showers.
(3) If the market is expanding, then some are going to new users who didn't previously have Widgets.
(4) It will be more like developers updating their Android smartphone apps to add Wear widgets.
(5) What they look at is unit labour costs – how much you need to pay staff to make one unit of output: a widget, say, or a bit of software.
(6) In reality, you'll see something in between: some Widgets go to new users, and some go to existing users.
(7) If a factory manufacturing widgets has a Quality Assurance Programme, is it not reasonable to believe that a hospital whose product is patient care should also have such a programme?
(8) That version of politics is less and less complicated, for all the worms and widgets and totemic American spin doctors imported at vast expense .
(9) You can find your nearest event here: March finder widget Find your nearest climate march The events are designed to put pressure on the leaders from almost 200 countries who will meet in Paris to thrash out a new deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions post-2020.
(10) They are interactive and updated and you can interact with them directly - Federighi demonstrates an eBay widget that he can use to bid directly from the Notification Centre.
(11) This clever little widget is effectively our digital circulation map today.
(12) During a presentation at the Manchester Media Festival today, Davie displayed images of what the service might look like, with embeddable widgets for websites and a localised search facility to seek out content by postcode.
(13) Android is open for anyone to use, which the search engine giant hopes will lead to the creation of hundreds of applications - or widgets - which G1 owners will be able to download from a dedicated online marketplace.
(14) EvolveSMS takes a different tack: replacing the default messaging app with an impressively-usable multimedia tool – complete with useful widgets and lockscreen feature.
(15) Initially centred around an existing project in Newcastle working with young runaways, the solution will use mobile, web, app and widget technology to give supporters a real-time thank you's and updates from a local project worker.
(16) Only in the specific case where the market is saturated - that is, everyone who wants a Widget has one, so that now the market is essentially just replacements - does market share probably tally with "installed base".
(17) - There was the widget we built to allow 23,000 Guardian readers to help us sort through hundreds of thousands of documents relating to MPs expenses.
(18) Consider all the variables, even if we only look at country Z - where, you'll recall, 20m use Widget A, 50m have B, and 30m have C. Let's also suppose that the market share numbers for the latest quarter - 80% A, 15% B, 5% C - was spread among 10m units.
(19) It doesn't need to be the whole device, so if there is a patent on one small widget in a washing machine, the whole thing attracts only 10% tax.
(20) On 10 September , tech firms including Etsy, FourSquare, KickStarter, Mozilla, Reddit and Vimeo will install a widget on their sites to show how they believe the internet would look if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) overturns “net neutrality” rules.