the activity of managing or exerting control over something | one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures) |
power to direct or determine | a card certifying the identity of the bearer |
discipline in personal and social activities | a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement |
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat |
a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited |
the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | a list of dishes available at a restaurant |
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) |
a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | a witty amusing person who makes jokes |
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | thin cardboard, usually rectangular |