the activity of managing or exerting control over something | a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes |
(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States |
a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | |
power to direct or determine | |
discipline in personal and social activities | |
great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | |
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 | |