control – English noun declension

English noun forms of control

Noun: control
Singularcontrol
Pluralcontrols

Sample Sentences

  • The government has complete control over the situation.
  • She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave. [2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times:]
  • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. [2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:]
  • “The entries in the control accounts reflect respectively the effect of the transactions on the value of Korrinna company’s receivables (sales ledger control account) and payables (purchase ledger control account.” [2006, Henry Lunt, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, page 297:]
  • "Make sure you enter the total of any credit balances in the sales ledger into the Sales Ledger Control Account and the total of any debit balances in the purchase ledger into the Purchase Ledger Control Account." [2012, Harold Randall, David Hopkins, Cambridge International AS and A Level Accounting Textbook, page 78:]
  • “Wages Control Account: This account records wage transactions in aggregate. Postings are made from wage analysis sheet. This account is debited with gross wages (paid and accrued) and is closed by transfer of direct wages to work-in-progress and indirect wages to factory, administration and selling and distribution overheads control accounts as illustrated below:” [2012, Aurora M.N., A textbook of Cost and Management Accounting, 10th Edition, page 12-3:]
  • "Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides, controls, psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential." [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]
  • […] the self-acknowledged stereotype of the audaxer as a socially awkward middle-aged man, […] carefully avoiding eye contact as a volunteer serves him his cup of tea and plate of baked beans in one of the draughty village halls that typically host audax controls. [2019, Emily Chappell, Where There's a Will:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulus (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).
2. Partly displaced native Old English wealdan and Old English wieldan, whence their merged reflex English wield. See: Latin Nouns 'rotula'.

Verbs referencing "control"

Finnish Nouns kontrolli.