Procedure vs Control - What's the difference?
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A particular method for performing a task.
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, title= A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
(label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
* (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
(label) That which results; issue; product.
(label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
(label) A surgical operation.
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.
As nouns the difference between procedure and control
is that procedure is a particular method for performing a task while control is influence or authority over.As a verb control is
to exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.procedure
English
(wikipedia procedure)Noun
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- Gracious procedures .
- (Bacon)
Synonyms
* (method) algorithm, method, process, routine * (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol * (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages) * (medicine) operationExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----control
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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.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
- (Johnson)