Control

1. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
2. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
3. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
4. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
5. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.