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I simplify things further by thinking that a control's ControlType exposes what kind of control the control is and that a control's Pattern exposes what the control can do.

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  1. transitive verb To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct. See Synonyms at conduct.
  2. transitive verb To adjust to a requirement; regulate: controlled trading on the stock market; controls the flow of water.
  3. transitive verb To hold in restraint; check: struggled to control my temper.
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  • This control could be achieved, but only by stringent acts of will most people found themselves incapable of. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • In my control were his great vocal chords (for in those days hooter and syren were on the driver's left, and lay convenient to the hand of him who occupied the box-seat), and it rejoiced me to let him hoot o a pony-cart, three hundred yards ahead, with a hand on his falsetto scream if his ordinary tones of conversation were unheard or disregarded. —  Collected Stories
  • The Empire is overextending itself, parsec by parsec, day by day In another- oh, even fifty or sixty years-its forces will be spread so widely through the space it claims to 'control' that the control will be a myth. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
  • Max's heart pounded hard, and his control was a thing of the past. —  Lori Foster - Duets.html
  • This control is at least as strong as in most implementations of non-trusted UNIX. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 23 -- An Introduction to Breaching a Server Internally
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system ·  management ·  unit ·  test ·  command ·  train ·  communication

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control:   controls ·  controlling ·  controlled
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  1. Middle English controllen, from Anglo-Norman contreroller, from Medieval Latin contrārotulāre, to check by duplicate register, from contrārotulus, duplicate register : Latin contrā-, contra- + Latin rotulus, roll, diminutive of rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English conterrolle = Dutch kontrole = German controlle = Danish kontrol = Swedish kontroll, from Old French contrerole, French contrôle, from Middle Latin contrarotulum, a counter-roll or-register used to verify accounts, from Latin contra, against, opposite, counter, + Middle Latin rotulus, Latin rotula, a roll: see counter-roll, counter-, and roll. The later senses (2 and 3) depend partly on the verb.
  2. = Dutch kontroleren = German controlliren = Danish kontrollere = Swedish kontrollera, from French contrôler, register, control, from contrôle, n.: see control, n.
 

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