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Controller vs Controlled - What's the difference?

controller | controlled |

As a noun controller

is one who controls something.

As an adjective controlled is

inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

As a verb controlled is

(control).

controller

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who controls something.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  • (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  • (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  • (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

    • Synonyms

    * administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * memory controller * microcontroller

    Related terms

    * control theory

    controlled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (control)

    • Derived terms

    * remote-controlled