Controlling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTROLLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTROL, to exercise authority over, also CONTROUL
• determine the behaviour or supervise the running of
• maintain influence or authority over
• limit the level, intensity, or numbers of
• remain calm and reasonable despite provocation
• regulate (a mechanical or scientific process)
• (of a drug) restricted by law in respect of use and possession
• take into account (an extraneous factor that might affect the results of an experiment)
NOUN:
• the ability to manage a machine, vehicle, or other moving object
• the restriction of an activity, tendency, or phenomenon
• a means of limiting or regulating something
• a switch or other device by which a device or vehicle is regulated
• the place from which a system or activity is directed or where a particular item is verified
• a person or thing used as a standard of comparison for checking the results of a survey or experiment
• a member of an intelligence organization who personally directs the activities of a spy
• a high card that will prevent the opponents from establishing a particular suit
• the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events
• the ability to restrain one's own emotions or actions
ADJECTIVE:
• able to control or determine policy

Words related to CONTROLLING

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How to use CONTROLLING in a sentence

• Those who reject the current creed appear to assume that the controlling agency conferred by it may safely be thrown aside.
• Luffe steeled himself against a blow, controlling his face and his limbs lest a look or a gesture should betray the hurt.
• It was evident that the cable was being wasted, and to prevent its running out too fast at this great depth the brake controlling the flow of the cable was tightened.
• It tended to give rise to the organization of labor groups and finally to that of trades unions, the beginnings of those controlling this country today.
• The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS.
• After the destruction of the treasures of Louvain, it is absurd to imagine that the controlling motive could have been any reverence for works of art.
• There is no controlling a second wife and they are hard to get on with.
• Any one would attain the blessed regions, if he should spend six nights here controlling his passions.
• There is a controlling force over this tremendous bombardment.
• Then, controlling her voice, she asked the servant in French for some hot water.
• They professed to possess the power of controlling the winds and waters, and of influencing the stars.
• Norbert had the power of controlling devils, and casting them out of possessed persons.
• One reads of occasional uses of the old method of solo recitation to the lyre, but never as a controlling motive in the dramatic construction.
• The instinct of self-preservation is such a controlling power with them that unconsciously they draw away from the ball, and, try as they will, they cannot stand up to the plate.
• Adams but yielded to a public sentiment that was controlling in the city of Washington in the winter of 1860-61, and which was then formidable in all parts of the country.
• But after a while there was somebody who began to get up a movement in favor of controlling the school by love.
• His love must be all the stronger since it took no thought of things which others would have found of controlling importance.
• See, therefore, that first controlling your own temper, and governing your own passions, you fit yourself to keep peace and harmony among other men, and especially the brethren.
• A Human Thought, then, is an actual EXISTENCE, and a FORCE and POWER, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
• It is true that there was a time, some traditions of which are still preserved among the Indian tribes of North America, when the woman possessed controlling influence and power.
• The love of money is the controlling emotion of the age.
• Anybody, anywhere, with a truly reverential thought upward, and a controlling purpose to be right in his life, will find the door swinging wide.
• For the future his occupation is rather to keep a broad, general supervision, to put his controlling touch for the moment now here, now there.
• Watching over the Igorot, controlling the winds and the rains, and providing good crops and health for the people, is the Great Spirit, Lumawig, who lives in the sky.
• The heat, tempered by the vast Pacific, was never great, and the air had a vitality that proved a constant aid to her controlling motive.
• As the nerve tracts governing certain responses become ready to act, these responses become the controlling ones in play.
• Katharine might have been seated in her own drawing-room, controlling a situation which presented no sort of difficulty to her trained mind.
• Even the mysterious mika operation of so primitive a race as the Australians has been supposed to be a method of controlling conception.
• These, controlling the city government constantly in a most envious spirit, refused to extend the public improvements of the Faubourg.
• The influence of each sect over its own members is overwhelming, often shutting out, or controlling, all other influences.

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