单词 | controlling |
释义 | controllingn. The action of control v. (in various senses); esp. the action of restraining or directing; (also in early use) †calling in question (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun] havingeOE holdc1230 withholdingc1386 restrainingc1390 refraininga1398 repression?a1425 repressing1431 bridlingc1443 restraint1443 restrainc1449 repressurec1487 restingc1503 abstention1521 controlling1523 controlment1525 distrain1531 staying1563 control1564 refrain1568 retention1578 check1579 restrainment1579 refranation1583 cohibition1586 withholdment1640 curbing1661 coercion1827 chastenment1882 detent1907 clamp-down1940 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison of texts > [noun] > as test of accuracy controlling1523 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > test or testing for truth or correctness > by comparison controlling1523 check1786 checking1879 check-up1921 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] > by comparison controlling1523 check1786 checking1879 cross-check1896 check-back1926 society > authority > control > [noun] > controlling manage?1578 controlling1651 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiii. 264 The great lordes..vysited the ladies and damusels without any controllynge. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1291/1 [To] vse their owne iudgement in thallowing or in the controllynge of any part of hys context. 1601 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 118 That the weseting, trying, comptrolling, and seilling of the claith..be commitit to the magistratis of the brugh. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xx. sig. C A man in hew all Hews in his controwling . View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 139 Consequently to controule their controulings. 1762 J. Rotheram Serm. on Wisdom of Providence 14 Provision is made..for the checking and controuling of vice. 1790 J. Fletcher & J. Benson Rational Vindic. Catholic Faith iv. 57 The fixing, or the controlling of the laws of Nature. 1840 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 28 There is no longer any controlling of the mania. 1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back viii. 109 A sadhu whose accomplishments included the controlling of moonlight and the rays of the sun. 1998 P. E. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing ii. 73 The real controlling of the computer was done by its programmers, few of whom were ever allowed in the computer room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). controllingadj. 1. That controls (in various senses). Formerly: †censorious, overbearing. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [adjective] controlling1564 all-disposing1597 dispositive1613 disposing1628 regiminal1746 the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [adjective] wlonkOE moodyOE rankOE surquidous1377 insolentc1386 wantona1393 arrogantc1405 angardc1425 surquidrousc1430 stately1448 imperiala1456 superbious1509 succudrous1513 surquidant1528 ruffling1543 controlling1564 lustya1568 cocking1568 superbous1581 bog1592 swaggering1596 superarrogant1598 arrogating1601 pyrgopolinizing1605 high-handed1606 outbearing1607 high-horsed1613 dictatory1639 bardish1641 self-assuming1647 superbient1647 huffy1680 dictatorial1692 huffish1755 cobby1785 high-riding1831 braggadocious1853 snouty1858 you-be-damned1887 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > censuring or condemning censorious1536 judging1546 controlling1564 condemnatory1570 convictory1576 censorical1589 censorial1592 censurious1604 censuringa1616 condemning1642 reprobating1645 outbraiding1655 twitting1655 reprobatory1657 perstrictive1659 damnatory1682 reprobative1785 1564 T. Dorman Proufe Certeyne Articles in Relig. f. 25 He that will with comptrolling eye checke your gouernement. 1576 A. Fleming tr. P. Manutius in Panoplie Epist. 330 Which deserved well lyking, and not controlling contempt [L. non contemnendum]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 103 Controlling Lawes. View more context for this quotation 1710 Tryal Dr. H. Sacheverell 89 A Supreme controling Power over all the Censures and Excommunications of the Church. 1796 Proc. Old Bailey 6 Apr. 415/2 I am controuling surveyor of these warehouses. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 689 There was no controlling authority. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 2/2 The committee suggested the establishment of a controlling and vetoing body. 1946 Far Eastern Surv. 15 210/1 White Anglo-Saxons are the controlling group in the economic and political life of the country. 1994 Lay Witness July 7/1 The controlling grip of the moguls. 2007 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 27 A £5.6bn deal to buy a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar. 2. Of a person: having a desire or tendency to control other people's behaviour. Often in predicative use. ΚΠ 1950 Psychoanal. Rev. 39 159 She was very controlling of her mother. 1965 Family Life Coordinator July 135/1 Controlling husbands..tended unconsciously to seek out mates whose submission and passivity represented the denied and repressed aspects of their own personality patterns. 1983 J. Macy Despair & Personal Power iv. 72 Respecting the time constraints without pushing the group or appearing to be unduly controlling. 2013 M. Zailckas Mother, Mother (2014) 336 She was no more controlling or manipulative than any other woman on the planet. Compounds controlling experiment n. = control experiment n. at control n. Compounds 6. ΚΠ 1843 Ann. Chym. & Pharmacy 1 365 We consider the application of controlling experiments, by effecting combustion by the aid of a stream of oxygen, as highly necessary for the purpose. 1920 Endocrinol. 4 146 A controlling experiment did not show this rise. The same result occurred with the removal of the pancreas. 2005 S. Gieser Innermost Kernel 79 Positivism sets up those sciences that use observation and controlling experiments as an ideal for all other sciences. controlling interest n. a stake or holding consisting of the majority of the equity in a business, giving the holder a means of exercising control over the organization's management and policy; the ownership of such a holding by one person or group. ΚΠ 1833 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 3 Aug. He was very intimate with Poultney and others, who had bought up a controlling interest in the Bank of Maryland. 1886 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. 2/3 [He] has purchased a controlling interest in..the Bay Ridge resort property. 1929 Times 27 Dec. 16/1 Another type of promotion..is that in which a vendor promotes a company, acquires the controlling interest..and then sells the controlling interest to another company in return for shares in the second company. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power viii. 121 [In 1952] the reclusive Howard Hughes was announcing the sale of his controlling interest in RKO pictures to a retailing concern called the Empire Mail Order Company. 2003 P. Lovesey House Sitter (2004) xiii. 201 [She] has the controlling interest in her old man's company, so she can't be a total airhead. controlling nozzle n. a nozzle on a hose (esp. a firehose) that allows the volume and pressure of the water issuing from it to be adjusted during its flow. ΚΠ 1873 City Rec. (New York) 29 Aug. 235/3 Repaired. 84 Engines. 47 Hook and Ladder tracks... 2 controlling nozzles. 1922 Fire & Water Engin. 14 June 1070/1 A controlling nozzle should be used at all times when working in a building, where it is apparent that there will be considerable shifting of the line. 2011 B. Krein Once Around Block xv. 367 We turned our controlling nozzle to a broad fog spray and pushed the smoke out the windows. Derivatives conˈtrollingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [adverb] lordlya1398 statelya1450 succudrouslyc1480 insolentlya1513 arrogantly1529 imperiously1536 rufflingly1575 stuntly1581 huffingly1611 surlily1611 swaggeringly1611 controllingly1612 surlya1616 superbly1663 dictatorially1731 huffishly1755 dictatorily1788 bounceably1838 high-handedly1867 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adverb] > censoriously or condemningly controllingly1612 censoriously1679 reprobatively1817 judgingly1848 condemninglya1865 unflatteringly1874 condemnatorily1876 damnatorily1892 society > authority > control > [adverb] disposingly1625 controllingly1886 1612 R. Johnson Remembrance Robert Earle of Salisbury Ep. sig. A2v Some (I know) will controulingly censure. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 2 Which makes him write with such a Turky-cocks quill, too controulingly and censoriously. 1886 G. O. Fay in Proc. 13th National Conf. Charities & Correction xi. 230 To mingle socially, controllingly, with the children. 2010 Daily News (South Africa) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 9 Boys will feel this is how a ‘normal’ man behaves. A ‘normal’ man in their head behaves violently, controllingly and ‘authoritatively’ towards women in general. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1523adj.1564 |
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