Noun: controller
| Singular | controller |
| Plural | controllers |
Sample Sentences
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The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. [1700, John Dryden, transl., The Wife of Bath, Her Tale:]
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Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on. [1963 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 115:]
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I'm collecting player's names for a school project. You know, players just like you! That's right, you--the one holding the controller. Would you register your name, please? [1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:]
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The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the main clause. If the main verb does take an OBJ, the controller is the matrix patient. [2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press (hardback) (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117]
Nouns inflected like controller
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contrārotulātor, from *contrārotulāre (from which control). Doublet of comptroller. By surface analysis, control + -er. See: Middle English Nouns '
countreroller', French Nouns '
contrôleur'.
Verbs referencing "controller"
Danish Nouns
controller, Dutch Nouns
controller, Russian Nouns
контроллер, Romanian Nouns
controler.