the activity of managing or exerting control over something | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur |
power to direct or determine | (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time |
discipline in personal and social activities | an act of narration |
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | a person related by blood or marriage |
a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | |
the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | |
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | |
a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | |
the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | |