Control vs Explore - What's the difference?
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To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
* With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
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(countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over.
A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent.
The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
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, title= A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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As verbs the difference between control and explore
is that control is to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of while explore is .As a noun control
is (countable|uncountable) influence or authority over.control
English
Verb
(controll)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
Derived terms
* controller * controlling * controllable * controllability *Synonyms
* * manage * * ruleAntonyms
* obey, submit (to be controlled ) * defy, rebel, resist (not to be controlled )Noun
- She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
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Synonyms
* (GUI) widgetDerived terms
* control character * control panel * control tower * cruise control * in control * master control * mind control * out of control * proportional control * race control * self-control * under controlexplore
English
Verb
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In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.