HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
2. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
3. (banking) A bank account.
4. (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
5. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
6. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
7. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
8. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
9. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
10. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
2. (intransitive) To consider that.
3. (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
4. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
5. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
6. (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
7. (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
8. (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
9. (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
10. (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
11. (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
12. (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

noun

1. (organic chemistry) The compound 3-hydroxybutanone CH₃-CO-CH(OH)-CH₃ that is one of the constituents of the flavour of butter

noun

1. (organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.

noun

1. (toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
2. The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.

noun

1. (zoology) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.

noun

1. (chemistry, physics, dated) Radon-219 (²¹⁹₈₆Rn; symbol An), an isotope of radon
2. (obsolete) Synonym of radon
3. (physics, dated) An actinide

noun

1. plural of action

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of action

adj

1. (rare) unthinkable; incapable of being thought
2. Of or relating to anoesis.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

Proper noun

1. the name of a number of cities founded by kings of the Seleucid dynasty, the most famous being "Antioch on the Orontes" in ancient Syria (modern-day Antakya in south-eastern Turkey).
2. A city in California.
3. A village in Illinois.
4. An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana, USA
5. An unincorporated community in Wright Township, Greene County, Indiana, USA
6. An unincorporated community in Pike Township, Jay County, Indiana, USA
7. An unincorporated community in Posey Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, USA
8. A ghost town in Nebraska.
9. A village in Ohio.

noun

1. The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.

noun

1. plural of atonic

noun

1. (bridge) The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
2. A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

verb

1. To sell at an auction.

adj

1. Relating to both ears; binaural.

adj

1. (biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism.
2. (obsolete or nonstandard) Biological.
3. Misspelling of biotic.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to botany.

noun

1. Any substance of botanical origin.

Adjective

1. Bothnian

Adjective

1. Of or relating to Candia (now called Heraklion).

noun

1. (music) A clayen pot used as a percussion instrument in South America.

noun

1. Alternative form of cant-dog

noun

1. (by extension) An uproar; activity that is full of high spirits and violent action.
2. A dance festival in which colonial Americans and natives both participated.
3. A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A song, poem or incantation.

noun

1. plural of canton

noun

1. A cotton material with a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

noun

1. plural of cantor

noun

1. (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
2. (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
3. (obsolete, law) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
4. (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
5. A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.

verb

1. To add captions to a film or broadcast.
2. To add captions to a text or illustration.

Proper noun

1. Any of several place names in England:
   1. a village in the borough of Bedfordshire
   2. a village in district, Cambridgeshire
   3. a village in borough, County Durham
   4. a village and parish in Leicestershire
   5. a suburb of in the borough of Nottinghamshire
   6. a village in district, Suffolk
   7. a village in district, North Yorkshire
   8. a village and parish in district, North Yorkshire
   9. a village in the borough of South Yorkshire
   10. a village in the borough of the City of West Yorkshire
2. from any of these places.
3. A southern suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
4. An inner suburb of Victoria, Australia.
5. A neighbourhood in Alberta, Canada.
6. A hamlet in Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada.
7. Various places in the United States of America:
   1. an unincorporated community and CDP in Alabama.
   2. a small city in Georgia.
   3. a tiny city in Kansas.
   4. a small city in Minnesota
   5. a town in New York.
   6. a city in Oregon.
   7. an unincorporated community in Texas.
   8. an unincorporated community in Washington.
   9. a town in Wisconsin.
8. A settlement on United States Virgin Islands.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) A red crystallizable tasteless substance extracted from the carrot.

noun

1. plural of carton

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carton

noun

1. (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
2. (art) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
3. (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
4. (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
5. (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
6. A diagram in a scientific concept.

verb

1. (art) To make a preliminary sketch.
2. (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.

noun

1. plural of cation

noun

1. (dated) One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
2. (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
3. (soccer) A yellow card.
4. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
5. Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
6. Security; guaranty; bail.

verb

1. (soccer) To give a yellow card
2. (transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.

noun

1. plural of cenote

noun

1. (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
2. A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
3. Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.

noun

1. A cent, i.e. ¹⁄₁₀₀, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the Euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance, C₂₇H₅₅.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; cerotic alcohol; ceryl alcohol.

noun

1. Alternative form of chanter

Noun

1. A member of an indigenous people of southern central Mexico.

Proper noun

1. Their indigenous Mesoamerican language.

noun

1. plural of chaton

Proper noun

1. Any of several villages in
2. An in
3. A and unincorporated community in
4. A city in that is the of
5. A town in Calumet County, Wisconsin, partially within which the city is.

noun

1. plural of chiton

noun

1. A meat stew traditionally served on the Sabbath by Jews.

noun

1. (Buddhism) A Tibetan stupa.

noun

1. The unit of hereditary material (e.g. DNA) that encodes one protein; sometimes used interchangeably with the word gene.

noun

1. plural of citron

Proper noun

1. A in the U.S. state of that is the of

Proper noun

1. An area of London, in the borough of Hackney (officially Upper Clapton and Lower Clapton)

Proper noun

1. Any of several placenames in England and elsewhere, including:
   1. A town in Alabama, USA
   2. A town in Liberty Township, Indiana.
   3. A city in Missouri, the county seat of
   4. A town in New Mexico, USA
2. from the placename.
3. name from the surname.

Proper noun

1. Any of several places in England, especially a suburb of Bristol, England.
2. for someone who lived in a town of this name.
3. name transferred from the surname.

noun

1. (anatomy) The midpoint of the anterior border of the clivus

noun

1. An associate in an act; a coworker.

noun

1. (archaic) Cloth for making coats.
2. (law enforcement slang) A telling-off; a reprimand.
3. A thin outer layer.

verb

1. present participle of coat

noun

1. plural of cobnut

noun

1. (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.
2. (South Africa, Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.
4. (slang) A female breast.
5. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
6. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
7. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
8. The coconut palm.

noun

1. (archaic or historical) The change which the humoralists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
2. (medicine, obsolete) Digestion.
3. (obsolete) An act of boiling.

verb

1. (transitive) To enact jointly with somebody else.

adj

1. (linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
2. Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
3. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.

noun

1. (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
2. (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
3. (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or strongly believed to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
4. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.

noun

1. (law) relatives by the mother's side

verb

1. To bury together; inter.

Noun

1. Sexual intercourse.

noun

1. (linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
2. (programming) A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.
3. (uncountable) The act of commenting.
4. A spoken or written remark.

verb

1. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
2. (transitive) To remark.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
4. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.
5. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

Proper noun

1. Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
2. from the placenames.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to (1798–1857), French philosopher and founder of sociology and positivism.

noun

1. A force or impulse; a nisus.
2. An effort, an endeavour, a striving.

noun

1. (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
2. (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
3. (now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion.
4. (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
5. (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
6. (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
7. Design; pattern.
8. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
9. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

verb

1. (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.

noun

1. (archaic, music) harmony

noun

1. (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
2. An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
3. Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).

verb

1. to conceive; to dream up

noun

1. (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
2. (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
3. (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.

verb

1. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
2. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
3. To plan; to devise; to arrange.

verb

1. (figurative) To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.
2. (obsolete) To digest.
3. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.

adj

1. (obsolete) Preserved; pickled.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pickle; to preserve.

noun

1. (archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit.
2. (obsolete) Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another.
3. (of a literary work) Plot.
4. Behaviour; the manner of behaving.
5. Skillful guidance or management.
6. The act or method of controlling or directing.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To lead, or guide; to escort.
2. (intransitive) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
3. (transitive) To carry out (something organized)
4. (transitive) To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
5. (transitive) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
6. (transitive, music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
7. (transitive, reflexive) To behave.

noun

1. (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.
2. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance sheet bank assets.
3. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
4. A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.

noun

1. diminutive of cone. In the sense of the fruiting body of a conifer, it refers to a developmental stage in the growth of the strobilus.

noun

1. (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

verb

1. (transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

verb

1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of confess

verb

1. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

noun

1. (Ireland, Scotland, agriculture, history) A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.

verb

1. To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.

verb

1. (obsolete) To conjecture.
2. (obsolete) To throw together, or to throw.

adj

1. (botany) United with other organs of the same kind (for example sepals connate with sepals, petals connate with petals, or stamens with stamens).
2. (geology) Trapped within a rock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum).
3. Inborn.
4. Of the same or a similar nature; proceeding from the same stock or root.

noun

1. A drug dealer.
2. A useful friend or associate.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a blow) To arrive at an intended target; to land.
2. (intransitive, of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
3. (intransitive, of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
4. (transitive, of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
5. (transitive, of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
6. To associate; to establish a relation between.
7. To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
8. To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.

verb

1. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
2. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
3. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
4. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.

noun

1. (obsolete) Advice; counsel.
2. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
3. Voluntary agreement or permission.

verb

1. (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.
2. (transitive, medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
4. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

Proper noun

1. a town in County Durham, England.

noun

1. (rail transport) A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.

verb

1. (intransitive, with in) To be comprised or contained.
2. (intransitive, with of) To be composed, formed, or made up (of).
3. (obsolete, copulative) To be.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To exist.

adj

1. (postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager

noun

1. (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
2. (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
3. (uncountable) Association or partnership.
4. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
5. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
6. A ship accompanying another.
7. The spouse of a monarch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
2. (intransitive) To be in agreement.

adj

1. (law, religion, sciences) It is clearly evident; It is certain, without a doubt.

noun

1. (law) A certificate for a court discharge.
2. (law) An exemplification under seal.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of construe

noun

1. (US) A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
2. (obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
3. (obsolete) Agreement; concert.
4. (obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation
5. (obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.

verb

1. (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
2. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
3. (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
4. (transitive) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
5. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
6. (transitive) To refer to (something) for information.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.

adj

1. (entomology) Marked as if with stitches, like the wing-covers of some beetles.

noun

1. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
2. (informal) A contact lens.
3. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
4. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
5. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
6. Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
7. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
8. The establishment of communication (with).
9. The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.

verb

1. (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To establish communication with something or someone.
2. (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To touch; to come into physical contact with.

verb

1. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
3. (transitive) To hold inside.
4. (transitive) To include as a part.
5. (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

noun

1. (obsolete) contention, heated debate

verb

1. (law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).
2. (transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
2. (intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
3. (intransitive) To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
4. (intransitive) To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
5. contend with: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.

adj

1. (obsolete) Contained.
2. Satisfied, pleased, contented.

intj

1. (archaic) Alright, agreed.

noun

1. (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
2. (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
3. (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
4. (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
5. (obsolete) Acquiescence without examination.
6. (obsolete) Capacity for containing.
7. (uncountable) That which is contained.
8. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
9. Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
10. That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
11. The amount of material contained; contents.

verb

1. (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

noun

1. (countable) A competition.
2. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
3. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To contend.
2. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
3. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
4. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

adj

1. (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

noun

1. (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
2. (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
3. (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
4. (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
5. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

verb

1. (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

noun

1. (linguistics) A phonetic consonant, as opposed to a phonological one.

verb

1. (intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
2. (transitive) To twist in a violent manner.

noun

1. (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
2. (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
3. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
4. An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.

verb

1. (intransitive) To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
2. (transitive) To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
3. (transitive) To mark with contour lines.

noun

1. plural of contra

noun

1. Clipping of contribution.

noun

1. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
2. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
3. (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
4. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
5. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
6. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
7. (spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
8. A control group or control experiment.
9. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
10. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
11. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
12. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

verb

1. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
2. (transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain
3. (transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account
4. (transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
5. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To bruise or pound.

verb

1. (transitive) To disturb or perturb greatly.

verb

1. (transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.