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Develop and Control

verb

  • Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
    • usage: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
  • Work out.
    • usage: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
  • Gain through experience.
    • usage: "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
  • Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes. )
    • usage: "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
  • Come into existence; take on form or shape.
    • usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • Change the use of and make available or usable.
    • usage: "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
  • Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
    • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • Create by training and teaching.
    • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
    • usage: "The plot developed slowly";
  • Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.
    • usage: "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
  • Become technologically advanced.
    • usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
  • Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.
    • usage: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
  • Generate gradually.
    • usage: "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
  • Grow emotionally or mature.
    • usage: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
  • Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
    • usage: "Please develop this roll of film for me"
  • Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
  • Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
    • usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
  • Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
    • usage: "develop the rook"
  • Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
    • usage: "develop the melody and change the key"
  • Happen.
    • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • Expand in the form of a series.
    • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"

noun

  • Power to direct or determine.
    • usage: "under control"
  • A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another.
    • usage: "measures for the control of disease"; "they instituted controls over drinking on campus"
  • Physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc. (
    • usage: "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"; "he had lost control of his sphincters"
  • A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment.
    • usage: "the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw"
  • The activity of managing or exerting control over something.
    • usage: "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"
  • The state that exists when one person or group has power over another.
    • usage: "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
  • Discipline in personal and social activities.
    • usage: "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"
  • Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity.
    • usage: "a good command of French"
  • A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine.
    • usage: "the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly"; "I turned the controls over to her"
  • A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance.
  • The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc..
    • usage: "they wanted to repeal all the legislation that imposed economic controls"

verb

  • Exercise authoritative control or power over.
    • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.
    • usage: "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
  • Handle and cause to function.
    • usage: "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
  • Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage.
    • usage: "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line"
  • Check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard.
    • usage: "Are you controlling for the temperature"
  • Verify by using a duplicate register for comparison.
    • usage: "control an account"
  • Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.
    • usage: "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"
  • Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.
    • usage: "Do you control these data"

Control is the authority of an individual or entity that owns more than 50% of equity in a company or owns the largest block of shares compared to other shareholders.

(DoD) Physical or psychological pressures exerted with the intent to assure that an agent or group will respond as directed.
(DoD) In mapping, charting, and photogrammetry, a collective term for a system of marks or objects on the Earth or on a map or a photograph, whose positions or elevations (or both) have been or will be determined.
(DoD) Authority that may be less than full command exercised by a commander over part of the activities of subordinate or other organizations.
(DoD) An indicator governing the distribution and use of documents, information, or material. Such indicators are the subject of intelligence community agreement and are specifically defined in appropriate regulations. See also administrative control; operational control; tactical control.